The Roseate Spoonbills legs, bill, neck and spatulate bill all appear elongated. Adults have a bare greenish head ("golden buff" when breeding) and a white neck, back and breast (with a tuft of pink feathers in the center when breeding), and are otherwise a deep pink. The bill is grey. There is no significant sexual dimorphism. Like the American flamingo, their pink color is diet-derived, consisting of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin. (From my Bird ID app)
Lovely capture with a catch light! Just a shame you have cropped it so tightly. If you have more pixels on your RAW file it would help to have a bit more space in front of the bird to allow it to fly into. If not and you're are clever with Photoshop, you can make it up yourself. I hope you don't mind my critique?
@marshwader Thank you for your critique. It does help me and I want to learn. At the moment I only use iPhotos to adjust features. I plan on using Lightroom in the future. With this picture I did not crop the front so tightly, I just captured the bird late. Did you mean that with photoshop one can add to the photo as needed?
April 1st, 2023
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