ML31195881
Contributor
Andrew Spencer Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Salisbury Plain
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Closer view of a particularly dense part of the colony.
Observation details
Estimate of numbers arrived at by taking what the expedition guides said was the maximum extent of the colony in a good year and estimating what percentage of that area was filled with birds. Many large young birds present, especially on the lower portions of the colony and near the beach, where they were gathered in large creches. At the beach themselves many hundreds of adults were arriving and departing in the surf. The upper reaches of the colony still had some very young birds being tended by adults, but these were a small minority of the colony.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/11.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 5244 pixels x 1884 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.68 MB