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Casuarius casuarius
It has hard and stiff plumage, a brown casque, blue face and neck, red nape and two red wattles hanging down its throat. The three-toed feet are thick and powerful, equipped with a lethal dagger-like claw up to 12 cm on the inner toe. The plumage is sexually monomorphic, but the female is dominant and larger with a longer casque and brighter-colored bare parts. The juveniles have brown longitudinal striped plumage. It is the largest member of the cassowary family and is the second heaviest bird on earth, at a maximum size estimated at 85 kilograms and 190 centimetres. Normally this species ranges from 127 to 170 centimetres in length. The height is 1.5 to 1.8 metres and females average 58 kilograms and males averaging 29 to 34 kilograms. It is technically the largest Asian bird (since the extinction of the Arabian Ostrich, and previously the Moa of New Zealand) and the largest Australian bird (though the Emu may be slightly taller)
The Southern Cassowary is distributed in tropical rainforests of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia, and it prefers elevations below 1,100 m in Australia, and 500 m on New Guinea.
Bird's Park Niendorf
Spotted on Jun 25, 2012
Submitted on Jun 25, 2012
19 Comments
Can't wait, indeed, Stian :)
I see, then you have something to look forward to ;-)
No, Stian....don't got it, yet :(((
Hi Lars. Have you tried the nikon 40 mm macro lens?
Added to Captive Animals mission
Thanks, Maria...they're acceptable but good is something different ;)
Stian, I guess I'll stick to the 40mm, too...it received excellent test-critics;
if it's the 60mm, then it's gonna be used.
I like the 40mm very much, but it takes time to get used to... The 40mm is cheap compared to the 60mm, it's a huge difference :P
nice series! No need to apologize for the photos - they are very nice!
That's what I am considering, too. I tend slightly to the 60mm to get a bit more range to the objects to shoot. Funny price difference though :/
Nope, small budget :P
I did buy Nikon 40mm F2.8G AF-S DX Micro-Nikkor
But? Nothing was left for it after buying the macro? :D
What macro did you buy?
Nice, I almost bought that one myself when I bought my macro objective ;)
Thanks Gerardo :D
Wow Wonderful Lars :):) New Toy
Nikon D3200 with 18-55er... :( ... yep, next is a macro :)
What kind a cam is that?
So you need to buy some new objectives then ;)
Thanks, Stian - it's the new cam...unfortunately with the lousy standard objective :/ ...so, they could be much better :(
Great pictures Lars!
added pic