Inspiring and Supporting Photographers of Australian Birds
Photographed by | Michael Hamel-Green on Sat 5th Sep, 2020 and uploaded on Tue 8th Sep, 2020 . | ||||||||||||||||||
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Comment | The disparagement of our Australian White Ibis as “bin chickens” can blind us to seeing their beauty and appreciating their resilience. As Erin Lennox, writes: “Knowing I’m a bird lover, my mother once tried to describe to me a particularly “majestic” bird she had seen in her neighbourhood. When, eventually, she produced a picture of the Australian white ibis, I roared with laughter. Somehow, she had missed the memo. But without having been exposed to the bad press, my mum had seen something I couldn’t: the ibis is a striking, even beautiful bird…I’m a PhD student researching the effects of urbanisation on birds – I know better than most that the ibis’ predilection for bin juice says far more about the wastefulness and destructiveness of humans than it does about the character of a bird which is just doing what it needs to do to survive. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/21/the-ibis-was-here-first-now-its-just-doing-what-it-needs-to-do-to-survive) This is a photo of a White Ibis in flight above trees at Coburg Lake, certainly a most striking and beautiful creature, here caught with the morning sun illuminating its fanned wings and capturing some of the tinge of yellowness in its tail feathers. A breathtaking bird indeed, celebrated as sacred in the northern hemisphere but less appreciated by many down under who may be oblivious to what they are missing. | ||||||||||||||||||
Equipment | Nikon Z7 with Nikon 300mm PF f/4 telephoto ISO 200 1/6400th f4 Handheld | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Coburg Lake Reserve, Coburg, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||
Keywords | in flight, adult | ||||||||||||||||||
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