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[Goutham Shankar]

Green Bee-Eater
The Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis) (sometimes Little Green Bee-eater) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family.

This was shot in Bandipur, Canon 500mm f4 | Canon 1D M3

[Jim Manjooran]

Good shot Goutham..!!..
lovely details..TFS..

[Mrudul Godbole]

A very cute and colourful bird. Nice colours and details. The head one angle is interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

The image is sharp. These kind of images work well when the bird is directly looking at your lens and both eyes are visible. Both eyes will not be visible unless there is frontal lighting.

Also there is another challenge of depth of field. The tip of the beak often gets missed out and doesn't get covered in the depth of field. Long lenses result in shallow depth of field to the tune of a few inches and hence it becomes a challenge to cover the beak.