African Bird Club

Bennett's Woodpecker pair - male and female

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Okavango Delta

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 400mm handheld

Bird Species

»Campethera bennettii - Bennett's Woodpecker

Bird Species (French)

»Pic de Bennett

Bird Family

»Picidae - Woodpeckers

Bird Group

»Piciformes Barbet, Honeyguide, Woodpecker

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Manual exposure 1/640 sec, f7.1 ISO 1000. Lighting adjustments, NR, cropping and digital lens optimiser applied in Canon DPP 4. Exported 16 bit TIFF file processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin to reduce noise. Sharpened after final size reduction.