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I heard this bird before i saw it. I actually mistook its call for some kids playing but can't remember any more details than that. It seems similar to a Kookaburra but i don't remember seeing a bird of this type before.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 4 points 11 months ago
[–] A_A 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Unidentified Flying Object ! Finally a good photograph of a UFO 😄
Seriously now : remarkable photograph to say the least 👍

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you.

The bird was chilling so i managed to get time to manually adjust focus and exposure to get some things just right. (Spot metering was used as guidance, I also had to adjust ISO up so the shutter was around 1/500th a second)

[–] Everythingispenguins 2 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't be a UPO? An unidentified perching object?

[–] MCRN 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I asked ChatGPT and it said it might be a channel-billed cuckoo 🤨

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel-billed_cuckoo

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 1 points 11 months ago