ML102081571

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - X

Observation details

**Many Thank to Ross Geredien, For sighting this bird on 05/20/18** If you are headed to this location please keep in mind that the road turns into a dirt road, also hardly any cell phone reception. Upon arrival there was another birder that was just leaving, I asked him if he caught any glimpse of the limpkin; and he stated that he was at the location for 30 minutes and did not see the bird nor did he happen to hear the bird calling out. I decided to call out the bird by placing my car stereo on medium volume and using IBird Pro (Android, Ios App) on my cell phone connected via Bluetooth to playback call sounds. Upon making several attempts to contact the bird, I decided to drive up a little bit and listen in between pauses hoping to hear the bird call back I turned around and returned to the original location decided to stay in place and playback several call sounds again and finally the bird responded and I was able to capture photos, audio, and video. Upon getting ready to leave another birder Eugene Keferl pulled up and I showed him the bird. youtube video link https://youtu.be/iDtUYtnlVdE

Technical information

Model

NIKON D810

Lens

150.0-500.0 mm f/5.0-6.3

ISO

800

Focal length

290 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/8.0

Shutter speed

1/3200 sec

Dimensions

4665 pixels x 2735 pixels

Original file size

2.08 MB