ML236132121
Contributor
Steve Bale Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
温榆河 (Wenyu River)
Beijing, China
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
A large, stocky snipe, in shortish grass close to the Lower Weir (see my attached photos). The flight photos -- attached courtesy of Terry Townshend -- were sent to the author of the definitive paper on the identification of Pin-tailed and Swinhoe's Snipe, who confirmed that, based on its tail structure (that can be clearly seen in Terry's photos), the bird is indeed a Swinhoe's Snipe. There have been many probables by the Wenyu, but this is the first to be confirmed.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D90
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/11.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1085 pixels x 773 pixels
- Original file size
- 273.1 KB