Southern ground Hornbill

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted March 11, 2014114 views4 comments

This photo was taken in KL Bird park. These birds fly around inside a large netted ecosystem. Giving the photographer plenty of room to get good photos. The park is huge with a large selection of ducks, parrots, egrets, and tropical birds.

Photo was slightly cropped with Adobe Photoshop. Photo was taken in February 2013.

Canon EOS 7D
EF200mm f/2.8L USM
200.0 mm
f/9.0
1/1000
iso 3200

Larger image:

http://natureshues.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/southerngroundhornbill01.jpg

Photoblog site:

http://www.everything-nature.com

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Rebecka on March 11, 2014 at 10:15 AM

What is happening in this image?? Dying to know. Do they pick up their chicks and move them? Or is there something wrong with the chick?

Very interesting behavioral shot in ANY case!

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on March 11, 2014 at 10:58 AM

Looks like a baby chicken is about to get eaten buy some prehistoric predator!!

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Comment posted by Rebecka on March 11, 2014 at 12:21 PM

This is not a Hornbill chick, right? Is it a parasitic nest chick...? Oh, I have a lot of research to do.

Registered on February 5, 2009, 170 Posts, 924 Comments

Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 12, 2014 at 2:31 AM

They were feeding the birds and the Southern Ground Hornbill was given a dead baby chicken.

Registered on July 29, 2013, 112 Posts, 229 Comments