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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Glenn Bartley on March 18, 2012, 06:06:26 pm

Title: One Crazy Bird - The Horned Screamer!
Post by: Glenn Bartley on March 18, 2012, 06:06:26 pm

Are these guys crazy looking or what???

(http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/6221/hornedscreamer02.jpg)

Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Shutter speed: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 8
ISO: 400
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4x

Title: Re: One Crazy Bird - The Horned Screamer!
Post by: stpf8 on March 18, 2012, 08:04:12 pm

This is a great shot that also shows many of the bird's features.  I wonder if the claw on its wrist is a morphological equivalent to the claws on immature hoatzins (also found in S.A., I believe), or if it's simply a new bony outgrowth from that part of its anatomy (I suspect the latter because it doesn't appear to be jointed).