This is another bird from the Asian Gardens at Lowry Park Zoo. It's a Nicobar Pigeon and in my opinion, she's one of the fanciest pigeons I've ever seen. I love her colors!These birds are from Southeast Asia, Thailand, Cambodia, Nicobar India, etc. Currently, they are OK, but are considered a near threatened species due to logging and hunting for food as well as their gizzards being used for jewelry making.
This one is a female, since she has a knob on her beak and unfortunately, her pure white tail can hardly be seen due to her position.
Settings used for this shot in bright afternoon sunlight were 1/60th at F7.1 in aperture priority mode with spot metering off the bird so I wouldn't lose her colors. I used ISO 200 (only because I forgot it was set there). I should've used 400 to get more speed on my shutter and used my 55-250mm lens at 250mm.
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Wonderful color and interesting info about this threatened bird. You share another great example of nature's fragile artistry.
Thank you, Margo. I think they're so beautiful and it's a shame that if they're not protected, they'll go extinct. I'm glad there are some in zoos--at least that way they won't completely go extinct.
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