Birds Birds in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

[Uncle Kevriano]

This is the Australian White Ibis (apparently also called Sacred Ibis, although the real Sacred Ibis is an African species). Here in Australia these birds have garnered with unattractive soubriquet of "bin chicken" (they do rummage through bins a lot...)

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70-200mm f/2.8 GM II at 200mm, 1/5000, ISO 250. Bright morning sunshine in a cloudless sky. Hard to believe it's the middle of winter.

Bin Chicken

 

[Angus Cameron]

Arctic Tern - Isle of May

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 400