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Perseverance

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Published: Apr 13, 2012

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^{I spent a whole morning at the Botanical Garden hoping to see toucans, and by the end of it started walking to the car park, full of disappointment that I hadn't come across them that day. Then, suddenly, there's chirping and a group of five individuals is screaming from a tree above me. I quickly change lenses from macro and get ready to shoot, and they fly to the nearest tree. Trying not to miss the shot another time, I switch my mode from manual to shutter priority and get shooting. I realize a bit too late that my shutter priority is at a low ISO and that all the shots are underexposed. I change back to manual as I desperately run after the group of toucans as they fly from tree to tree. Finally they stop again, and I manage to take one decent photograph before they're off again and I decide to go home. I hope it was worth the effort!
The toucan above is a channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus ariel). To be completely honest, no it isn't. The individual shown above consists of the population on the southeast coast of Brazil, which is almost identical to that in south-east Amazon (the real Ramphastos vitellinus ariel), but hasn't been named differently yet. Maybe one day it will be Ramphastos vitellinus amalius, who knows. I have yet to decide whether I want to be an ornithologist or study canines, or both.
Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Canon 7D.

To learn more about channel-billed toucan subspecies, go here: [link]
This is what they sound like: [link]}