ML80442751
Contributor
Dr. Dilip K G Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Jay's Kottappady, Kerala, IN (10.127, 76.582)
Ernakulam, Kerala, India
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Single bird. Waited for about ten minutes to appear from its hiding place under the bushes near the cow dung pit as Mr. Jay indicated. The bird appeared promptly and started feeding leisurely without any alarm. Picked up worms with its beak, ambling along the pit and it never used its legs to dig out the grubs. The bird was there for about 15 minutes giving me enough time to photograph it under the very low light in the cowshed. After a while, as if suddenly remembered about its exposed condition quickly went in to the bushes. The Wings and mantle are surprisingly cowdung coloured so that at times the bird was almost invisible in the low light in the cowshed
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7200
- ISO
- 20000
- Focal length
- 390 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 0.04 sec
- Dimensions
- 4716 pixels x 3144 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.96 MB