ML487492651

Age and sex

Adult Female - 1

Observation details

Spotlighting the whole road between Exaltacion towards Santa Ana. Many nightjars, but only here the first interesting one. Because the habitat looked good we stood on top of our car and got eyeshine from far in the field, not visible from shining with our flashlight from the car seat. The nightjar instantly flew towards the torch and then sat down on the road. It turned out to be the same female White-winged Nightjar as the night before, and we were only 50m from the spot it turned out. A possible second female WWN was seen 300m further: -13.4202, -65.3795. This one sat on top of a termite mount, but flew down into the grass. We tried to locate it by walking through the grass, but couldn't find this individual again. Wing pattern and flight style seemed similar. The same happened 20km further up (-13.6041, -65.4409). There we couldn't relocate it either, but the habitat is also great (at day we saw Black-masked Finches, Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrants etc)

Technical information

Model

ILCE-9M2

Lens

FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS

ISO

2000

Focal length

600 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/8.0

Shutter speed

1/160 sec

Dimensions

4015 pixels x 2677 pixels

Original file size

4.89 MB