ML608415814
Contributor
Kevin Gong Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
河头村及周边鱼塘 (Hetou Village and nearby fishponds)
Jiangxi, China
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Observation details
many seen again at the fish ponds, surprised to see them so active even during noontime when it's quite hot outside (34 degrees), interestingly saw one adult in breeding plumage kind of defend its own section of fishing grounds, it kept hovering over a small section of fish pond and dived down a couple times (didn't see it catch any fish) but it kept looping and hovering over it, presumably to look for fish, then when any other tern tried to get close or attempted to fish at the same place, it would call harshly and fly towards it to drive it away, very cool to see their territoriality, maybe a dominant individual too? haven't seen this with the larger ponds however, very cool! recorded its calls too.
Technical information
- Model
- ILCE-7M3
- Lens
- 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
- ISO
- 1600
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 2135 pixels x 1226 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.01 MB