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The bird pictures featured here have been included to provide some variety to all the mammal photos.

Friends have gradually persuaded me that watching - and photographing - birds can be as enjoyable as viewing larger wildlife when visiting nature reserves.

But photographing birds from a vehicle is not easy. Ideally you need a powerful 600mm super-telephoto lens to bring the subject close enough to ensure you get a worthwhile picture and not just a tiny speck in the center of the frame.

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lilac-breasted roller Three-banded Plover Ground hormbill
Woodland Kingfisher Bateleur (immature) Carmine bee-eater
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Row 1:
1.Lilacbreasted Roller, Kruger National Park, South Africa
2.Threebanded Plover, Kruger National Park, South Africa
3.Southern Ground Hornbill, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Row 2:
1.Woodland Kingfisher, Kruger National Park, South Africa
2.Bateleur (immature), Kruger National Park, South Africa
3.Carmine Bee-eater, Tuli Block, Botswana

Row 3:
1.Brownhooded Kingfisher, Kruger National Park, South Africa
2.Woodland Kingfisher, Tuli Block, Botswana
3.African Spoonbill, Ndumo Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Row 4:
1.Saddlebilled Stork (male), Kruger National Park, South Africa
2.Saddlebilled Stork (female), Kruger National Park, South Africa
3.Martial Eagle, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Row 5:
1.Whitefronted Bee-eater, Kruger National Park, South Africa
2.Lilacbreasted Roller, Kruger National Park, South Africa
3.Masked Weaver building nest, Kruger National Park, S Africa

Row 6:
1.Greater Flamingo, Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana
2.Great White Egret, Chobe River, Botswana
3.Helmeted Guinea Fowl, Kruger National Park, S Africa
  

Hugely Expensive
Powerful telephoto lenses are not only hugely expensive, but they are not designed to be hand-held - ideally they should be supported by a heavy tripod to reduce camera shake.

To eliminate any camera shake even further, the camera's shutter should be fired using a remote or cable release.

That's not easy when you're in the passenger seat of a vehicle with a bunch of other people.

So my bird photography has been limited, not only by lack of suitable equipment, but also by lack of enthusiasm as a result.

Digital Photography
However, digital photography is changing the landscape.

Not only are there affordable cameras available with powerful 12x zoom lenses, but the "consumer" SLR digitals (like the Canon 350D and Nikon D50) have a built-in multiplication or crop factor of 50% to 60%.

So using a 400mm F5.6 lens (or a 300mm lens with a 1.4x converter) is like shooting with a 600mm. Add image stabilization and it becomes much more feasible to shoot bird pictures from your vehicle while visiting game and nature reserves.

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