ML552957551
Contributor
Adrian Walsh Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Cairns Botanical Gardens and Centenary Lakes
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Seen well, next to Creek melaleuca. Cuckoo stance with drooped wings, barred belly, yellow eye ring, grey coverts and grey upper breast and head. Iris is graduated with an inner ring adjacent to the pupil being an orange-brown colour. This then fades to a yellowish-orange. Male due to iris colour and lack of rufous tinge on breast (female). Ate a couple of caterpillars during observation, ssp. optatus.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P1000
- ISO
- 360
- Focal length
- 539 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 3624 pixels x 2615 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.82 MB