Contributor
Luke Seitz Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Offshore--Kiama Pelagic (SOSSA)
Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I think this was called out as a Parasitic on board, but I noted it down as a Long-tailed and I'm still confident in that identification. I've shown the photos to several friends back home (Ian Davies, Nick Bonomo, Jeremiah Trimble), all of whom agree with Long-tailed. This was my first gut reaction when observing the bird in life, due to its small size and light flight. Other notes include the heavy black-and-white barring on undertail covs and underwing, small bill, no white shafts on any of the incoming primaries (thus, at most, only the outer three new ones could have white shafts...and of the older feathers, the white appears strongest on the outer two), and subtly more compact shape, neckless appearance, and rounder crown.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF500mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/4000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3212 pixels x 1646 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.4 MB