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Wildlife at the Zoo - Vulture

Started by flusk, 06/09/2011 05:33PM
Posted 06/09/2011 05:33PM Opening Post
Fresno has an excellent mid-sized zoo with exhibits of the size that lend themselves to head-shot photography with modest telephoto lenses. At some of the bigger zoos I have visited, the large animal exhibits are so deep that I can't get good head shots with the equipment I have. Here are a few examples (however, of smaller critters), all shot with an Olympus E-5 + 50-200 mm lens (100-400 mm equivalent to FF).

Up first, a colorful clown-faced vulture.

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Posted 06/09/2011 05:35PM | Edited 06/09/2011 11:25PM #1
The parrots are my favorite. The Fresno Chaffee Zoo has a large Tropical Rain Forest exhibit that you walk through. The parrots and other birds are not otherwise caged, which makes photography so much easier.

This type of parrot is called a Military Macaw.

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