Yellow billed stork - landing action

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Yellow billed stork - landing action
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Copyright: Lenka Gondova (lgfoto) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 256 W: 15 N: 277] (1428)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-02-24
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 40D, Canon 70-200 F4 L USM IS
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/2500 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: Tanzania 2008
Date Submitted: 2008-03-06 11:11
Viewed: 359
Points: 12
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Yellow-billed Stork, Mycteria ibis, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It occurs Africa South of Sahara and in Madagascar. Its a medium-sized stork. Length: 97 cm; avarage body weight for males: 2.3 kg; for females: 1.9 kg. Plumage mainly pinkish-white with black wings and tail; bill yellow, blunt, and decurved at tip. Immature birds are greyish brown with dull greyish brown bill, dull orange face and brownish legs.

The Yellow-billed Stork is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
Source: wikipedia


Taken at the trip to Tanzania at Lake Manyara National park.

Lake Manyara National Park

Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.

The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience.
Source: http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/manyara.htm
From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.
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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1864 W: 2 N: 4738] (18250)
  • [2008-03-06 11:19]

Hi lenka. What a fine shot of the Stork. such clear colours and good detail. they stand out so well against the blue sky. a nice POV/DOF. well done TFS. good notes too.
Nick..

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  • Necipp Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1150 W: 15 N: 2074] (12392)
  • [2008-03-06 14:36]

Helllo Lenka good timing to get a good pose of the bird on the right. Nice and sharp with good colour/light. tfs rgds Necip.

Lenka,
Such a fantastic shot of the storks. Perfect sharpness, and the beautiful blue sky constrat very well for the storks. I saw them at Manyara. They were picking up sticks for there nest. I didn't get this close-up photo of them like you did. TFS
Way

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2072 W: 6 N: 1848] (12716)
  • [2008-03-06 23:58]

Hola Lenka,
interesante captura y excelente pov,
buenos colores y estupendo foco...
saludos

This is a superb photo. The sharpness, colour, BG, and lighting are brilliant.TFS.
Mike

Hi lenka what a shot
great moment very good colours nice focus and good contrast in one week i will be in tanzania too and I hope I will get a lot of good shot too
tfs Toba

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