Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher (f)

Female Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) with food to take to the nest. You might see one of her streamers is half worn off, from all the time inside the nest. Once the female joins the feeding duties with the male the chicks are close to fledging, she has probably gone out of the nest to coax them out. I didn't get to this spot in the rainforest the next day, but 2 days later they were gone. Once the chicks fledge they are taken up into the high canopy, become much harder to spot. The adults will migrate back to PNG in about a month, the juveniles following a few weeks later. They somehow know where to go.

ISO 25,600, 600mm, f4, 1/1600, R5.

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