These quick little birds are amazingly colorful and don't sit still for long. Lucky for me, it was a cold winter morning and this one was more interested in warming up in the sun than in eating. He was isolated nicely on his thorny limb. Taken at MalaMala Game Reserve in South Africa.
Douglas Croft, Nikon D7000, Nikkor 200-400 w/1.4 teleconverter @ 550mm, ISO 200, f8, 1/400
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