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Chocolate-Backed Kingfisher
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Chocolate-Backed Kingfisher (Halcyon badia)

A difficult bird to find and when found even more difficult to photograph. This is the best I could manage!
Habitat
Forest
Location
Royal Mile, Budongo, Uganda
Date taken
15th October 2018
Scientific name
Halcyon badia
Equipment used
Canon 7D Mk11 plus 100-400mm lens
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Opus Editor
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I'd love to see one of these beauties. A wonderful capture of this Kingfisher Michael!
 
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Opus Editor
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Gosh Michael!!! The is the first image to come in for 11 years, would you believe. So I believe you about the difficulties!! LOL

You've a super picture of him lad, so I'll upload it to The Opus, as I feel it's an improvement on the current image there.

Very well done and many thanks for sharing it with us.
 

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Africa
Added by
Michael Hooper
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