ML161478221
Contributor
Ryan Andrews Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Arenal Observatory Lodge
Alajuela, Costa Rica
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Pair walking along Waterfall trail. Got pretty good photos and excellent views. Identification confirmed by Jorge Campos and David Garrigues. In the field, I misidentified one of these as a Purplish-backed Quail-Dove and one as a Ruddy Quail-Dove, which in hindsight both are clearly wrong (corrected ID on November 30, 2021). But I didn't even consider Violaceous as an option, and thus stuck to the misidentification despite a lot of confusion. Much duller than I would expect for a Violaceous, but the dark lighting in the understory is probably responsible for a lot of that. Note: there were three quail-doves present, but I only photographed two of them and both were Violaceous. I suspect the third was as well, but cannot confirm.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
- ISO
- 12800
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/400 sec
- Dimensions
- 1928 pixels x 1370 pixels
- Original file size
- 874.76 KB