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Ground Hornbill

Ground Hornbill - Adult

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Roadside of highway, northern section of Chobe National Park

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

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

Bird Species

»Bucorvus leadbeateri - Southern Ground Hornbill

Bird Species (French)

»Bucorve du sud

Bird Family

»Bucorvidae - Ground Hornbills

Bird Group

»Bucerotiformes Hornbills, Hoopoes, Wood Hoopoes, Scimitarbills

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Manual exposure 1/2500 sec, f7.1 ISO 800. 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.

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