the palm cockatoo

windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
edited March 9, 2005 in Wildlife
biggest of the species
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    Excellent shot trot. Well exposed and with excellent detailsthumb.gif
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    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
    Harryb wrote:
    Excellent shot trot. Well exposed and with excellent detailsthumb.gif
  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited March 8, 2005
    Troy,

    I saw this one yesterday and was stunned by the exposure thumb.gifthumb.gif I mean, to get this level of detail off a basically black bird is awesome clap.gif 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

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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited March 8, 2005
    Whoa! nice catch winny
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    common 0zzie name : Boltcutters
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 8, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    common 0zzie name : Boltcutters
    rolleyes1.gifrofl


    great shot - black birds/animals in general are really hard to expose well thumb.gif
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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    Wonderful capture Troyylsuper.gif
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    thanx Steve!!! it was a difficult shot, ill take some credit - but give most of it to canon!!!


    troy
    Steve Cavigliano wrote:
    Troy,

    I saw this one yesterday and was stunned by the exposure thumb.gifthumb.gif I mean, to get this level of detail off a basically black bird is awesome clap.gif 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 MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    windoze wrote:
    thanx Steve!!! it was a difficult shot, ill take some credit - but give most of it to canon!!!


    troy
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    MHJS wrote:
    Hope Harry doesnt see that statementyelrotflmao.gif
    too late :hung
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    Wow Troy
    windoze wrote:
    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)
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    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]
  • gtcgtc Registered Users Posts: 916 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    one of my favourite birds
    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.
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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2005
    THAT IS AMAZING!!!
    have you seen these birds in the wild? they are quite large - id be scared out of my mind .....

    troy
    gtc wrote:
    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.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2005
    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.
  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2005
    my 1st "hot thread" - yahooooo! :D

    thanx for the info!

    troy

    Humungus wrote:
    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.
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