ML207070021

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Sex

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Observation details

As far as birds go, this was the highlight for me; an absolutely perfect Long Tail!! We were heading along when one of the guides asked me what I thought of what he suspected to be a Soft Plumaged Petrel, but one bounding along low exactly like a Tern!! One look at this bird made my heart miss a beat; it was so smudgy black below with a white belly, and the small, thick Bill was held so downwards, that I really thought it was a mega Petrel, probably Atlantic!! But then... the upper parts revealed the truth; they were immaculately blue-grey, with very dark contrasting primaries and a white, scalloped rump... it was so small, it’s bouncing flight so Tern like and it’s wings so free of wingflashes that it was absolutely clearly a Long Tailed Jaeger, a lifer for both myself several of the new friends I made on the trip!!

Technical information

Model

COOLPIX P610

ISO

100

Focal length

80.6 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1600 pixels x 1200 pixels

Original file size

805.74 KB