ML139076661
Contributor
Mike Andersen Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Hacienda Concepcion
Madre de Dios, Peru
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
The kites were observed foraging on a large, winged hymenopteran (ants or termites) that were swarming above the lodge at Hacienda Concepcion. Two photos here show the kites actively eating the abdomens, after which they dropped the remaining parts of the insects (head and thorax) to the ground. We noticed numerous individual insects crawling on the ground without abdomens. The swifts were also likely foraging on these insects, but they likely ate the entire insect whole.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 40D
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 2713 pixels x 1809 pixels
- Original file size
- 767.97 KB