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I have been away from this forum for a little while as life intervened. But I had early July penciled in for a bird photography tour to Ecuador. I stayed in 3 ecolodges on the Andean mountain slopes in Quito, Tandayapa and Milpe and also visited the Antisana Volcano. I saw more than 200 species of birds there and was fortunate enough to photograph 120+ species including the most colorful tanagers, hummingbirds, toucans, antpittas etc.
Even after 2 weeks back from the trip, I am still slowly working through my pictures and processing them.
I thought I could share a few that are ready and hope you like them.

Amit

Taken with Nikon D500 and Nikon 500 f4 FL

#1. Aracari
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/923/42572261435_9cb9436c01_b.jpg

#2. Crimson-rumped Toucanet
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/917/43487539292_6122b57edb_b.jpg

#3. Red-headed Barbet
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1769/42714347994_0d55caa48f_b.jpg

#4. Sword-billed Hummingbird
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1786/28572608867_99b80e25dd_b.jpg

#5. Blue-winged Mountain Tanager
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/927/42861573094_83d0fb1183_b.jpg

Jul 22, 2018 at 08:40 PM

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Amit these are truly beautiful. Looking forward to seeing more.

Birdie

Jul 22, 2018 at 09:47 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Amazing birds of Ecuador

These are all top notch Amit ~ Ron

Jul 22, 2018 at 10:12 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Amazing birds of Ecuador

Amit bhau, amazing. I was waiting to get the full trip report.Bravo. Voted.

Jul 22, 2018 at 11:02 PM

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Wonderful images, Amit! My favorite is the sword-billed hummingbird because I have yet to photograph one

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Joshua

Jul 22, 2018 at 11:22 PM

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Wow, Amazing captures..

Pius

Jul 22, 2018 at 11:56 PM

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Beautiful images, Amit!
Keith W.

Jul 23, 2018 at 12:27 AM

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very nice images Amit

Jul 23, 2018 at 02:57 AM

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Gorgeous images and birds Amit

Morris

Jul 23, 2018 at 08:10 AM

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Beautiful shots Amit. Did you find you needed to use TCs with that combo or was the bare lens usually enough with the pixel dense D500?

TFS
Geoff

Jul 23, 2018 at 08:46 AM

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They are amaaaazing...!

John

Jul 23, 2018 at 10:08 AM

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Beautiful set of birds! Thank you for sharing.

Jul 23, 2018 at 10:44 AM

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These are really beautiful but they are cropped a little too tight IMO.

Jul 23, 2018 at 11:47 AM

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Amazing photographs of the amazing birds of Equador. Simple, and beautiful presentations. Super effort Amit.

Jul 23, 2018 at 05:37 PM

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birdied wrote:
Amit these are truly beautiful. Looking forward to seeing more.

Birdie

Thanks, Birdie. I hope I can get through all my pictures fast enough

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surfnron wrote:
These are all top notch Amit ~ Ron

Thanks so much, Ron.

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AGeoJO wrote:
Wonderful images, Amit! My favorite is the sword-billed hummingbird because I have yet to photograph one

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Joshua

So kind of you, Joshua. I was amazed when I saw the sword-billed myself. The Violet-tailed sylph and the Trainbearer were the other 2 that were equally striking.

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Pius Sullivan wrote:
Wow, Amazing captures..

Pius

Thanks for the compliment, Pius.

Amit

Jul 23, 2018 at 06:34 PM

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kdacharya wrote:
Amit bhau, amazing. I was waiting to get the full trip report.Bravo. Voted.

Thanks for the compliment and the vote, KD. Wish you could have joined me. It looks like you had a great time too in India with the tigers.
Lovely pictures!!

Amit

Jul 23, 2018 at 06:36 PM

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kwilliam8 wrote:
Beautiful images, Amit!
Keith W.

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kmunroe wrote:
very nice images Amit

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morris wrote:
Gorgeous images and birds Amit

Morris

Thank you, Keith, Kenny, Morris for your kind words.

Amit

Jul 23, 2018 at 09:58 PM

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arbitrage wrote:
Beautiful shots Amit. Did you find you needed to use TCs with that combo or was the bare lens usually enough with the pixel dense D500?

TFS
Geoff

Thanks, Geoff. Bare 500 was good enough for these shots with slight cropping, mainly for composition. In a few other places on my trip, I did use a 1.4x tele. But most of the time, I kept the lens bare for a wider aperture.

Amit

Jul 23, 2018 at 10:00 PM

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bonnyrcl wrote:
They are amaaaazing...!

John

Thank you very much, John

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Tony Admana wrote:
Beautiful set of birds! Thank you for sharing.

Very kind of you, Tony.

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bobbytan wrote:
These are really beautiful but they are cropped a little too tight IMO.

Thanks, Bobby. With regard to the cropping, sometimes the birds were much to close for the 700mm effective focal length and I couldn't move my tripod setup lest I scare the bird away. There were other photographers too who might have gotten mad at me if I did.

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KCollett wrote:
Amazing photographs of the amazing birds of Equador. Simple, and beautiful presentations. Super effort Amit.

Thank you very much for your compliments, Ken.

Amit

Jul 23, 2018 at 10:04 PM

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A wonderful set of images!! Superb photographic technique and the processing is perfect. You had some excellent light.

Dave

Jul 24, 2018 at 10:54 PM

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