How to Photograph Birds in Flight Using a DSLR Digital Camera - Picture Tips and Techniques
By Clive Anderson

Being able to capture good images using a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera can be extremely rewarding and some of the best pictures that we can take tend to sometimes be the hardest. Once we have a pretty good understanding of some of the cameras functions both on automatic and manual we can focus on the job of putting this information to good use. One of the hardest images to capture tends to be of something that is moving, but there are ways to make it a little easier to master…

This is one of our videos that has been up on YouTube for a while. It was shot at David Fleay Wildlife Park on Queensland’s Gold Coast.  The crocodile was minding its own business late in the afternoon, when the turkey decided it was time to send it packing. David Fleay Wildlife Park is home to many Australian native animals displayed in bushland surroundings similar to their natural habitat.

The Bird section of the OzAnimals site is being updated with over a hundred new species added. The picture below shows a small selection of the bird species added, and a complete list of all the bird images on the site is included in the table at the end of the post.

Here is a link to some cool shots from the shortlist for the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (from the New Scientist site).

The shot of the bat in flight is neat, and I had no idea that the sandpiper photo was thousands of birds until I read the caption.

I got an email the other day from Hans Engstrand in Sweden. Hans is breeding King Parrots and currently has 23 of them. They are hardy birds and can thrive in Sweden in temperatures down to minus 20 degrees. On his web site www.kungsparakit.com he has photos of King Parrots in the snow.

For more information on this bird, see the OzAnimals King Parrot page