the palm cockatoo

[windoze]

biggest of the species
http://windoze.smugmug.com/photos/17085947-L.jpg

[Harryb]

Excellent shot trot. Well exposed and with excellent details:thumb

[windoze]

thanx harry! ya know i know you dont generally like "zoo shots" but where else would i ever find such a bird?? also - let me tell you getting this cockatoo wasnt easy. the windows look as if they havent been cleaned since the last century and this fella was perched way up high - i snuck under the bar and stood up agaisnt the window.... and you thought out in the wild was dangerous???


troy

Excellent shot trot. Well exposed and with excellent details:thumb

[Steve Cavigliano]

Troy,

I saw this one yesterday and was stunned by the exposure :thumb :thumb I mean, to get this level of detail off a basically black bird is awesome :clap I'm sure you had to wait around until the light was right. This doesn't look like it was one where you just wandered by the enclosure, pointed, shot and continued to walk on.


Very, very nice ^5

Steve

[Angelo]

Whoa! nice catch winny

[gus]

common 0zzie name : Boltcutters

[DoctorIt]

common 0zzie name : Boltcutters:rofl:rofl


great shot - black birds/animals in general are really hard to expose well :thumb

[John Mueller]

Wonderful capture Troyhttp://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/ylsuper.gif

[windoze]

thanx Steve!!! it was a difficult shot, ill take some credit - but give most of it to canon!!!


troy

Troy,

I saw this one yesterday and was stunned by the exposure :thumb :thumb I mean, to get this level of detail off a basically black bird is awesome :clap I'm sure you had to wait around until the light was right. This doesn't look like it was one where you just wandered by the enclosure, pointed, shot and continued to walk on.


Very, very nice ^5

Steve

[John Mueller]

thanx Steve!!! it was a difficult shot, ill take some credit - but give most of it to canon!!!


troy
Hope Harry doesnt see that statementhttp://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/yelrotflmao.gif

[Harryb]

Hope Harry doesnt see that statementhttp://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/yelrotflmao.gif
too late :hung

[Skippy]

biggest of the species

He even looks like he's smiling :D
I'd have to photograph such birds in the Zoo too, because we don't have such beautiful birds where I live.......got plenty of seagulls....but they don't count.

You need to go to Singapore to the Jurong Bird Park.......you'd have a ball, they have the most extraudinary birds there.

Good Shot Troy.......... Skippy (Australia)

[windoze]

I'd love to visit Australia.... It would be a dream vacation but then i wouldnt to afford a CANON 500 MM ONE DAY

THANX SKIPPY!


[TROY
QUOTE=Skippy]He even looks like he's smiling :D
I'd have to photograph such birds in the Zoo too, because we don't have such beautiful birds where I live.......got plenty of seagulls....but they don't count.

You need to go to Singapore to the Jurong Bird Park.......you'd have a ball, they have the most extraudinary birds there.

Good Shot Troy.......... Skippy (Australia)[/QUOTE]

[gtc]

nice capture-although i do despair at seeing such majestic birds in captivity
the palm cockatoo is one of my favourite australian birds-they are supposedly our most intelligent birds-they make and use tools and have also been observed rolling nuts onto pedestrian crossings when the lights change so that cars will crush them.

[windoze]

THAT IS AMAZING!!!
have you seen these birds in the wild? they are quite large - id be scared out of my mind .....

troy

nice capture-although i do despair at seeing such majestic birds in captivity
the palm cockatoo is one of my favourite australian birds-they are supposedly our most intelligent birds-they make and use tools and have also been observed rolling nuts onto pedestrian crossings when the lights change so that cars will crush them.

[gus]

Windoze they are not a common cockatoo (palm) at all. Only hang about in the north of queensland & new guinea.

My favorite is the Major Mitchells as in the photo...i have been bitten several times by cockatoos & it is very nasty bite. One was quite cranky at me working up a pole the other day (must have been near the nest) & sat maybe 10 feet above me & screamed at me for several mins...very loud birds.

[windoze]

my 1st "hot thread" - yahooooo! :D

thanx for the info!

troy


Windoze they are not a common cockatoo (palm) at all. Only hang about in the north of queensland & new guinea.

My favorite is the Major Mitchells as in the photo...i have been bitten several times by cockatoos & it is very nasty bite. One was quite cranky at me working up a pole the other day (must have been near the nest) & sat maybe 10 feet above me & screamed at me for several mins...very loud birds.