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Darter - Threat display

Bharatpur, Rajasthan, 26 Feb 2006

This Darter let me go real close for me to get a good portrait shot. At one point, I was too close and I had stepped into the birds comfort zone. The bird turned towards me and performed this display to scare me away. Ofcourse I did get scared, as this was a big bird and it could jump on me and injure me quite badly.


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