slideshow gallery, Jan. 2010

Uploaded 20-Jan-10

Taken 10-Jul-08

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Categories & Keywords

Category:Animals

Subcategory:Birds

Subcategory Detail:

Keywords:dowitcher, short-billed dowitcher

Photo Info

Dimensions1823 x 1211

Original file size159 KB

Image typeJPEG

Color spaceAdobe RGB (1998)

Date taken11-Jul-08 07:11

Date modified11-Jul-08 07:11

Shooting Conditions

Camera makeCanon

Camera modelCanon EOS-1D Mark III

Focal length700 mm

Exposure1/800 at f/5.6

FlashNot fired

Exposure bias+2/3 EV

Exposure modeAuto

Exposure prog.Aperture priority

ISO speedISO 400

Metering modePattern

Short-billed dowitchers - blastoff

If a predator swoops down at feeding shorebirds, they immediately flush and fly as a group, almost as a single organism. These short-billed dowitchers were flushed by a merlin.