ML167463081
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Tags
- Field notes/sketch; No bird
Media notes
The tiny wings had 1 sideways-directed claw at the tip (I'm not sure whether the alula's finger had a claw too).
Observation details
Half way down, the mist had risen and it wasn't raining any more, and Avit, who was ahead of the group, suddenly threw his ax into the forest and ran after it, then he and the other locals started running and zigzaggin back and forth in the trailside understory. One of them shouted "murúk". At one point, they headed back toward the trail, with, in front of one of them, a bantam-sized, horizontal-striped baby cassowary, which they promptly caught. Dwarf Cassowary as a species is called "amanani" but 5 growth-stages are recognized by different names: "anu" is the smallest, with stripes; next "komu", "iboale", "oromo" and, when the feathers are black "anotunu". This "anu" had the ground color of the head and sides of neck orange-tawny, black scribbles vaguely like arabesques "radiating" from above and behind eye to midcrown and hindcrown. Ground color of body whitish yellow-buff. Black stripes along the body, the more dorsl ones broader and with orange-rufous centers. Actually, except in the stripeless underside, the body is probably 60% dark and 40% ground color.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot S95
- ISO
- 80
- Focal length
- 6 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/60 sec
- Dimensions
- 3648 pixels x 2736 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.16 MB