Toucan Do!

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11 replies

Posted by Dave Sewell on April 1, 2008 at 4:27 PM

Chestnut Mandibled Toucan. One of the highlights from a recent trip to the high Andean slopes in Ecuador.
Canon 1D2N, 500f4 +1.4x,ISO 100, 1/40th sec.

Posted by Bertl Menegoni on April 1, 2008 at 4:58 PM

Great design these exotic birds,
fantastic comp and BG.
The perch is very very good

Bertl Menegoni
Innsbruck
Austria

Posted by Dave Sewell on April 1, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Apologies - they're CM Aricaris! Senior moment!
Dave

Posted by Barrie Courtenay on April 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM

What ever they are Dave they are fantastic looking birds

Posted by Stuart McCrae on April 2, 2008 at 2:40 AM

Great looking birds,like the way the perch winds it's way through the frame

Posted by Helge Sorensen on April 2, 2008 at 4:13 AM

Nice and different, only nit is a bit of a halo aroudn the birds

Posted by David Kjaer on April 2, 2008 at 4:41 AM

Very nice Dave!

David

Posted by Andy Shepherd on April 2, 2008 at 4:52 AM

Very nice capture Dave , nits covered

Andy...

Posted by Paul Inglis on April 2, 2008 at 5:53 AM

Hi Dave,

Superb capture! with lovely colours and detail! I like the pose of both birds!

Posted by Paula Graham on April 2, 2008 at 5:08 PM

Wow, superb, what a great perch, not the mention your beautiful, exotic subjects

Posted by Danny Green on April 3, 2008 at 6:12 AM

Very nice, like the pose.

Danny

Posted by eric weight on April 3, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Great perch, background and subjects,; so no nits with this one for me.

Eric