Roadside Hawk, Trampoline of Death, Colombia

One of the most accurately named birds in the world, for being reliably found on the roadside, always. This bird helped in other ways. We were stopped by the police for a random search directly after this spotting. Colombia is one of few countries in the world where the regular police is so heavily armed, with machine guns. Noting the size of my camera, they asked lots of questions about it and ultimately wanted proof of my claim that we were only photographing birds. This bird did it, as we had not photographed many on this day.

The story isn't as interesting as it may sound. They were probably just bored out of their minds and had a genuine interest in our hobby.