ML624435302
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Observation details
not an exact count (500-1000 probably present 7-10AM today), few at first light, numbers building through the AM - a few being taken by gulls, weak flying birds piling up just off Holyrood beach, some obviously heading inland, living but very weak birds grounded and a few carcasses along the waterfront and road. Leach's Storm-petrels were picking at bits of debris washed off the shore (photos) and floating gull-mangled carcasses of their own species off Holyrood Beach. Wind displacement of LESP and associated mortality is a natural occurrence of no population- or species-level conservation concern. Nevertheless, I think LESP is at grave risk in NL due to increasing light pollution, concerns outlined here: https://groups.google.com/g/nf.birds/c/-3qhGDAsqyY/m/rJrSHvJmCgAJ?pli=1
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R5
- Lens
- EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4x III
- ISO
- 3200
- Focal length
- 700 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/4000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2691 pixels x 1514 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.08 MB