It is often said that bird photography is the most difficult field of nature photography. Certainly compared with photographing game in reserves where they are habituated to vehicles, then bird photography may seem a tough proposition.
Bird photography is primarily about technique.
There are numerous tricks of the trade that can make bird photography very productive indeed. In fact, I find that often I take more worthwhile bird pictures in a day than animal pictures during a game drive. In subsequent features, I will be discussing some of these techniques but a logical place to start this series would be to look at hardware first and in particular telephoto lenses. The ultimate lens for bird photography is probably a 600mm F4. At 600mm you get an impressive 12x magnification.