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A rather beautiful bird in flight with contrasting colors, the bird migrates to Africa from Europe during the beginning of the winter and few of them fly to India. And apparently, they fly back to Africa after a month over the sea (Wikipedia lists a record of bird strike on a plane over the sea enroute to Africa). Not sure why they take the long route though. The habitat is rich with insects after the rainy season and the bird is always found in the same area roughly within a square kilometer. We were fortunate to see 3 of them with a 20 sq km area.

This shot is not how I wanted it since the focus was on the wings and not the head. This is due to the 15 point AF which focused on the wings which are closer to me than the head. An eye AF would have gotten this right I suppose!

Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
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Author Hari K Patibanda

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Hari K Patibanda at https://flickr.com/photos/34176693@N06/50413235272. It was reviewed on 19 September 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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