Black Noddy - Myron Gerhard
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Location

Wai'Anapanapa State Park
Maui, Hawaii, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 20.7826576, -155.99792
Age
Not specified
Sex
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Observation details

See photos. A person was flying a drone, which flushed the entire Black Noddy colony on the rock/island in the bay at one time. The photos below are of that flying flock. One photo is of the entire flock, and two of them are of the left side / right side. I roughly counted the individual birds in the single photo, and came up with 375. If a more precise number is needed, the photos could be more accurately counted. Though there were many individuals flying in and out from the rock continuously, I was shocked at how high a number flushed! Of course, reasonable to assume that many individuals were not even in this flushed group at the time. ebird says this count is very high for this time and location, so let me know if this data needs to be further validated.

Technical information

Model
Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
ISO
640
Focal length
215 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire, auto
f-stop
f/6.5
Shutter speed
1/320 sec
Dimensions
4000 pixels x 2664 pixels
Original file size
2.72 MB