Blue-bellied Roller

From the Atlanta Zoo earlier. The last three are a little blown out, I know, but it's a beautiful bird nontheless.

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all great shots but just that background ewww but what can u do?
i love the colors on him, what a pretty bird. i like the third shot best if it had the first shots background.

Thanks, I know the background sucked lol, I said the same thing while shooting.

Very nice looking bird. Was he caged alone? He looks like a bird eater with that hooked beak.

No, he was caged with a Blue-breasted Kingfisher, and few Superb Starlings (pics of them later) some ducks, and a few other unknown birds. It was an open arear with netting over the trees.

Beautiful bird! Love the first two.

Thanks!

Nice shots Grimm even with the hot highlights. I don't know what DOF you used but Neat Image, or another noise reducing program can remove, or reduce, at least some of the netting from the backgrounds.

Very nice captures with very good details and beautiful colors.

Thank you both, and I'll look into Neat Image.