ML612206618
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
Media notes
Over at least 1 hour and 20 minutes (8:09 to 9:30 am), I observed these two male Gila Woodpeckers on and off fighting to the death, on the ground. This photos was taken at 9:30 am. Even after this loser seemed dead, the winner would come back and hammer at its head some more.. I took photos off and on and a few videos. 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//youtu.be/w0a1XLlKs-c?sibi9_mqMWAPvt3TRx Video 61: https://youtu.be/V8nN1npN40Q?siJHVAWowdqsLVqcsF
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
- 400
- Focal length
- 114 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.7
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1920 pixels x 1280 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.53 MB