Laggar Falcon - Gnanaskandan Kesavabharathi
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Date

Location

Mamandur Lake
Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Map
Map Coordinates: 12.75216, 79.664629
Age and sex
Juvenile, Unknown sex - 1
Behaviors
Flying

Observation details

Saw it a quite distance initially and first impression was Juvenile Peregrine falcon. When it flew and perched little further, all the harriers in the lake bed started mobbing it continuously. Only on a closer look we could confirm it as a Laggar Falcon immature - darker brown upper parts, finer moustachial stripe, unbarred tail, greyish cere & legs. Continuously been mobbed by all the raptors in the lake bed - White-eyed buzzard, Common Kestrels, all Harriers and finally a Peregrine Falcon as well.

Technical information

Model
NIKON D500
ISO
320
Focal length
500 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/5.6
Shutter speed
1/1250 sec
Dimensions
3549 pixels x 2366 pixels
Original file size
3.63 MB