Painted Francolin (Francolinus pictus)

[Vipin Sharma]

The species is declining owing to habitat degradation caused by agricultural encroachment. It is also declining owing to over-hunting in some areas.
Shooting Mode-Aperture-Priority AE , Tv( Shutter Speed ) -1/2500 , Av( Aperture Value )-6.3 , Metering Mode-Evaluative Metering , Exposure Compensation = -2/3
ISO Speed-1600 , Lens-150-500mm , Focal Length-500.0mm

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice sighting of this shy bird. Good eye contact. The low angle looks nice. Slight more sharpness (seems there was a slight movement, not sure) would enhance the image further. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Where was this shot? The image is soft. Did you upload a large file and the software converted it to a lower size? Did you upload an image larger than 300 kb or greater than 1024 pixels in the longest side.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Agree the image has gone soft. Lovely sighting in nice light, rare to achieve with this bird.

TFS

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice sighting
tfs
Roopak