ML316231101
Contributor
Gabriel Jamie Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Sundays River Estuary
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
Observation details
Continuing bird. Standing and sitting apart from other birds on river mouth close to water’s edge. Bill base pale greenish blue. Dark sub terminal band. Blood red tip. Bill long (longer than head width). Seems to be a 3rd calendar year bird with some dark marks on tail and extremely worn outer primaries. Though has adult type bill tip. Also note complete lack of any white at back of neck which adult would show at least some hint of. Picked up food thrown by fisherman. Showed very close at river mouth. Watched "drinking" from sea water - would dip bill into water, tilt head back and allow sea water to run down.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D80
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 3416 pixels x 2127 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.72 MB