ML612206617

Age and sex

Adult Male - 2

Media notes

Over at least 1 hour and 20 minutes (8:09 to 9:30 am), these two male Gila Woodpeckers were on and off fighting to the death, on the ground. This is one of the first photos taken at 8:09:17. The last photo of the series is the dead one. I took photos off and on and a few videos. This is one of the first bouts of fighting where the protagonists seem equal strength. Plaza, Ajo, Arizona, USA. 12 November 2023 All the fight photos are from 3636 to 3651 on my Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/photos/88886389@N02/ Links to Gila Woodpecker fight videos on my YouTube channel Video 59: a href"https://youtu.be/O2c8CbKROrA?siO3U51lduj6tOesGO" rel"noreferrer nofollow"youtu.be/O2c8CbKROrA?siO3U51lduj6tOesGO/a Video 60: a href"https://youtu.be/w0a1XLlKs-c?sibi9_mqMWAPvt3TRx" rel"noreferrer nofollow"youtu.be/w0a1XLlKs-c?sibi9_mqMWAPvt3TRx/a Video 61: a href"https://youtu.be/V8nN1npN40Q?siJHVAWowdqsLVqcsF" rel"noreferrer nofollow"youtu.be/V8nN1npN40Q?siJHVAWowdqsLVqcsF/a

Observation details

Over at least 1 hour and 20 minutes, these two Gila Woodpeckers were on and off fighting to the death, on the ground. The last phot of the series is the dead one. I took photos off and on and a few videos. #3656 is one of the first bouts of fighting where the protagonists seem equal strength. Plaza, Ajo, Arizona, USA. 12 November 2023 All the fight photos are from 3636 to 3651 on my Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/photos/88886389@N02/ . Links to Gila Woodpecker fight videos on my YouTube channel Video 59: https://youtu.be/O2c8CbKROrA?si=O3U51lduj6tOesGO Video 60: https://youtu.be/w0a1XLlKs-c?si=bi9_mqMWAPvt3TRx Video 61: https://youtu.be/V8nN1npN40Q?si=JHVAWowdqsLVqcsF ebird should add fighting to the list of behaviours

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS R10

Lens

RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM

ISO

2500

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/8.0

Shutter speed

1/1000 sec

Dimensions

1920 pixels x 1280 pixels

Original file size

904.18 KB