Common Swift - Vikas Madhav Nagarajan
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Vikas Madhav Nagarajan Media from this contributor Profile

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Location

IIT Madras (Restricted Access)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Map Coordinates: 12.9934334, 80.2380896
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified
Behaviors
Flying

Observation details

Finally got a record of this species! First spotted one bird flying towards GNP . The bird was more stockier than the Asian palm or little swifts. Photographed the second bird that flew towards the marshy areas. Very clear that it was an Apus swift Asian palm swift (not an apus swift but still mentioned elimination process)eliminated by non stocky appearance and shape and structure of bird Pallid swift eliminated on the basis of absence of extremely scaly appearing belly and white throat Little swift eliminated based on fork tail and non prominent white throat Dark rumped swift is endemic to North east hills Fork tailed swift has very whitish throat It is the common swift from the stocky appearance , Brown nature , no white rump, non scaly belly .

Technical information

Model
Canon EOS 7D
ISO
100
Focal length
300 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire, auto
f-stop
f/8.0
Shutter speed
1/1250 sec
Dimensions
1074 pixels x 1231 pixels
Original file size
326.74 KB