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cmr164
Mar-17-2005, 04:38 AM
The 500mm f/4.0L IS has me taking bird shots I never thought about. Here is a guy from the northern edge of Tokyo bay. Anyone ID him?

ISO 400 , f/5.0 , 1/400 , 500mm
http://www.iisc.com/dgrin/IH9T9970_cs.jpg
GREAPER
Mar-17-2005, 04:52 AM
Sorry I cant help Charles, all of my books are for North America.

Nice bird tho.
Harryb
Mar-17-2005, 06:12 AM
The 500mm f/4.0L IS has me taking bird shots I never thought about. Here is a guy from the northern edge of Tokyo bay. Anyone ID him?

ISO 400 , f/5.0 , 1/400 , 500mm

Sorry I can't ID him either all my books are for Florida or the US. Good capture though. The colors look great and the detail in the shot is excellent. Shame that one branch was over the face a bit.
ian408
Mar-17-2005, 06:51 AM
The colors are similar to a jay so I thumbed through my North American
guide and don't see anything except the Island Scrub Jay that's even close.
Even then, the head is wrong. Maybe it's in the right direction though.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Ian
Dixie
Mar-17-2005, 09:34 AM
It is an Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana).

http://mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec189-45.html
Stan
Mar-17-2005, 02:21 PM
It is an Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana).

http://mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec189-45.html
good source :thumb thanks for the link, I am always on the lookout for good bird
references
cmr164
Mar-17-2005, 02:52 PM
It is an Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana).

http://mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec189-45.html
Very cool! Page added to my bookmarks. THANKS
Dixie
Mar-17-2005, 03:07 PM
You're both welcome. The references are so big you have to narrow the search. For this one, I enter Japan and came up with a bunch of pages and luckily he was on the third page I checked if I remember correctly.

Their photos are the best, but at least you have a decent chance of being able to ID a bird if you at least know where the photo was taken.