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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Black-capped Kingfisher (Halcyon pileata)

7th February 2011



One of the uncommon visitor to Sabah, North Borneo seen recently at Kinarut paddy field about 30 minutes drive from Kota Kinabalu city.

Taken with Nikon D300s on 80-400mm VR



Happy birding !

5 comments:

John Holmes said...

It's a colourful and favourite bird here in Hong Kong. A painting of Black-capped Kingfisher was on the cover of "Hong Kong Birds" by Herklots in the 1950s.

Nice bird, nice shot !

Jason Bugay Reyes said...

Heeeee thanks John !

Stuart Price said...

So you got a new 80-400 lens?

Next you'll be buying a 300 f2.8 or 200-400!

Jason Bugay Reyes said...

o.0 Stu hehehe I'm saving for the 500mm now :)

theconstantwalker said...

A great capture. Well done.