ML619264969
Contributor
John Hiebert Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
North Ottawa Impoundment
Grant, Minnesota, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Observation details
I also got to observe something researchers call the aquatic plant or weed ceremony, which occurs later in pair formation. Both members of the pair dive and bring up weeds in their bills. They then face one another, feet churning to hold their bodies vertical, and move slowly forward or spiral with their plant-laden bills held close together. This “weed dance” ends when one bird drops its weeds, but the ceremony starts right back up and they do this over and over again.
Technical information
- Model
- E-M10 Mark III
- Lens
- OLYMPUS M.75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/400 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.56 MB