ML151616241
Contributor
MANASWEE MAITI Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Ballavpur WLS Jheel 2
Birbhum, West Bengal, India
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Male - X
Media notes
Captured By Manaswee Maiti.
Observation details
This common species is unmistakable. Adults have a white head freckled with dark spots, and a pure white neck and underparts. The upperparts are glossy blue-black upperparts, with bluish and greenish iridescence especially prominent on the secondaries (lower arm feathers). The male is much larger than the female, and has a large black knob on the bill. found in tropical wetlands in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and south Asia from Pakistan to Laos and extreme southern China.
Technical information
- Model
- DSC-HX90V
- Focal length
- 122.5 mm
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 3478 pixels x 2385 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.39 MB