Wildlife photography has its own challenges and it gets even tougher when you decide to capture birds in camera.

Action photography of birds is always difficult but it can give you marvelous results.

Let’s begin with camera equipment and settings required to get good pictures of birds.EquipmentCamera equipment is essential when it comes to wild bird photography.

Even Australian wildlife photography workshops insist on investing in quality camera gear.

You can only get as far as capturing ducks and geese from close proximity with normal cameras because they are not afraid of human company.If you want to do more than that you need at least one solid camera with one or more telephoto lenses.

You need a camera with 1/2000 of second shutter speed and six to nine frames per second.A large camera buffer is also recommended which can handle large bursts.