ML205717361 IBC 1105078
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- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
The yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) is a small bittern. It is of Old World origins, breeding in much of the Indian.....Subcontinent, east to Japan and Indonesia.This is a small species at 36 to 38 cm (14 to 15 in) in length, with a short neck and longish bill. The male is uniformly dull yellow above and buff below. The head and neck are chestnut, with a black crown. The female's crown, neck and breast are streaked brown, and the juvenile is like the female but heavily streaked brown below, and mottled with buff above. Yellow bitterns feed on insects, fish and amphibians.The yellow bittern's breeding habitat is reed beds. They nest on platforms of reeds in shrubs. Four to six eggs are laid. They can be difficult to see, given their skulking lifestyle and reed bed habitat, but tend to fly fairly frequently, when the striking contrast between the black flight feathers and the otherwise yellowish plumage makes them unmistakable. Elevation: 464 m. Date added to IBC: June 22, 2016.
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Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 1100D
- Lens
- 205-390mm
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 390 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 600 pixels x 900 pixels
- Original file size
- 383.67 KB