The perfect title!!! :-)
picture named as a finalist in the "Birds" category for this photo..... called Touché!
in: Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalists....
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Ecuador ....home of the astonishing "sword-billed hummingbird".....
the only bird with a bill longer than its body!!!..... (excluding its tail).......
Its 11cm (4.3in) bill is designed to reach nectar...... at the base of equally long tube-shaped flowers....
but Van der Greef ......(the photographer).....discovered that it can have another use....
this particular bird uses its bill "to make a statement" .......
when crossing the territory of a "fiercely" territorial collared inca.......
To capture one of these stand-offs......
Van der Greef set up multiple flashes to freeze the hummingbirds wing-beats.....
more than 60 a second!!! .... and then.....finally captured the precise colorful moment.!!!
yea.....dont mess with this fiercely territorial little guy!!!
:-)
enjoy!
picture taken by:
Jan van der Greef...... from the Netherlands..... finalist in the Birds category!