Long Tailed Broadbill

[Debasis Bose]

The gorgeous mystery bird - known as Long Tailed Broadbill. Rarely sighted but their melodious distinctive sounds can be heard during the nesting season in Himalayas. Was standby for more than two hours for few shots with nearly 8 kgs of camera+lens gear, before got a glimpse for few seconds.

Nikon, Nikor 600 F4, Shot @ 600 F8, ISO 800, 1/160s in manual mode as auto focus was getting locked on to the branches and leaves. Corbett Tiger Reserve

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

What a lovely sighting of this colourful songster. Good take. Your immense love for Corbett is reciprocated by Nature.Thanks for sharing. SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Great sighting. Quite difficult conditions to photograph. Its good you got the eye in clear through the crowded foreground. There seem to be some loss of details. Is this a crop? Thanks for sharing.

[Debasis Bose]

Thank you Saktida and Mrudul for the comments. Regarding loss of details, the image after resizing was still about 600 Kb, hence had to crop and re-size twice to get it about 400 Kb, still it was slight more the 400 Kb and I think that is the reason the image has lost considerably some details. In RAW the image has come quite reasonable.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

You need to specify a lower quality while resizing. Which software are you using to resize?

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice to see this colourful bird .
TFS
Roopak