ML48539751
Contributor
Panchapakesan Jeganathan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
On the way to Cherrapunji
East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Three birds seen initially later only two soaring for quite some time. Seen in Chirapunjee plateau open countryside in short grassland. Took photos (but not so great due to poor light and birds were bit far away) and notes and based on these following characters ascertained the species identity : It appears to have 7 finger primaries, Broad wings. Below: Underwing coverts slightly paler than the wing feathers, Underwing - Little comma like white patch at the base of the primaries in the carpel region, Tail and wing feathers are dark not barred Overall very dark body Above: Uppertail covers there is a whitish “U”, Base of some primaries white
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7000
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1829 pixels x 1092 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.09 MB