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White-throated Bee-eater


White-throated Bee-eater
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Copyright: Steven Le Vourc'h (Curioso) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 585 W: 287 N: 1498] (8902)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-12-12
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L USM IS, Digital RAW, Hama UV 77 mm
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/640 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: LIVING IN CAMEROON
Date Submitted: 2006-12-17 6:04
Viewed: 1219
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 17
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a Bee-eater I catched over a large river called Kimbi in a place called Kimbi Fauna reserve, nort-west of Cameroon.

Getting there absolutely requires a four-wheel-drive car even if the place is quite well-known being part of the Ring-road, north-west of Cameroon. The north part of that road is really hard and you don't meet much people : some Bororos people walking along with catles, few locals walking to the market and that's it.

Thanks to cuckooroller from TN, I identified it as a White-throated Bee-eater (Merops albicollis).

Climate in that area is very different from Douala : cool, slighlty windy due to the altitude (between 600m and 2200m high) and much drier than the littoral.

About 20km west of that area, a small path is leading to Nyos lake. It is sadly famous for having caused death of more than 1,600 people around in 1986. The crater lake, perched inside a dormant volcano, had become laden with CO2 gas. This gas had suddenly bubbled out of the lake and asphyxiated nearly every living being in the surrounding valley community.

An international team of scientist did set up a pipe system about 5 years ago to degas the lake and avoid a new disaster.

In a nearby village called Buabua where we spent the night, people from the village told us that most of them lost some parents at that time.
vincenti, lucasdasilva, jaja1970, pascal13, Silvio1953, jaywalker has marked this note useful
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salut steven
quelle spelndeur cette photo vraiment une merveille
des couleurs de toute beauté.
A+

This is veri good picture of the bird. Good focus sharp colors.
Lucas

Hi Steven,

Fantastic job.
Very sharp, detailed and colorful.

Congratulations & TFS,

Javad.

  • Good 
  • tica Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 86 W: 101 N: 73] (542)
  • [2006-12-17 6:49]

Hello!

that's so nice!
Congrats! Well donee!
I like birds a lot =D
God bless You.

ticii =O)

Bonjour Steven,
Très belle image,le cadrage,la netteté,les couleurs...tout celà est très bon.Ce zoom pour la photo animalière est excellent.Note intéressante.
Amicalement.
Pascal

  • Great 
  • partha Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1488 W: 85 N: 1293] (12832)
  • [2006-12-17 7:14]

Hi Steven,
It is a perfect steal. Nice positioning of the bird against the blue sky.Good tonality of colour and sharpness is quite good.
Well done.
Regards.
Partha

Hi Steven, very nice multicolor bird, lovely details and pose, splendid colors, very well done.
Ciao Silvio

Hi Steven, A wonderfully sharp capture the shallow DOF works superbly well, perfect colour & light, the eye is magnificent, kind regards Wilson.

Bonsoir Steven,

Joli ce petit oiseau perché sur sa branche, j'aime le flou laissé derrière et les branchages que l'on devine, peut-être pas assez présent.

Amicalement,
Stéphanie.

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  • Albrecht Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1944 W: 151 N: 903] (10738)
  • [2006-12-19 13:22]

Hi Steven
Beautiful p[icture with very good compo and DOF and POV. Sharp and good colours too.
greetings Albrecht

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