Red and Green Macaw (Peru)

[Glenn Bartley]

Greetings from Peru everyone!

My appologies for my lack of participation these past 6 weeks. I have been in the Peruvian Amazon and largely away from electricity (let alone internet). After spending 6 weeks in Peru I can tell you all that it is indeed a bird watchers paradise. Where I was staying in Manu National Park has 1000 species - in one park :shock:

I'm just back in Lima for a day to do some laundrey, emailing, etc. and then I'm back off into the field. I'll be visiting some pretty remote regions of the central highlands and have a few gems that I am after.

In any case here is a spectacular bird from the lowlands - the Red and Green Macaw. I am not very confident in the calibration of my laptop. Rather...it is a $350 laptop and probably cannot be calibrated accurately. I did the best I could on this one and hopefully it looks Ok.

All the best everyone!

Glenn



Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Shutter speed: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure compensation: -2/3
ISO: 800
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4x

[randimal]

Great shot. And awesome that you got the picture from above. Looks perfect to me.