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ML204719661 IBC 946269
Contributor
Mikko Pyhälä Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
McKinnon's Saltpond IBA
Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
Adult in breeding plumage in flight about to dive. Photographed at the McKinnon pond on Dickenson Bay. There were about a dozen of Roseate Terns, about a dozen of Common Terns, some twenty Least Terns and some twenty Sandwich Terns, in addition to a thousand plus Laughing Gulls and hundreds of herons, egrets and Brown Pelicans. There were also moments with almost no terns in sight. Roseate Tern breeds in Antigua. Elevation: 0 m. Date added to IBC: June 21, 2016.
Observation details
IBC scientific name: Sterna dougallii dougallii.
Collection
Internet Bird Collection (IBC)
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 30D
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 420 mm
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1250 pixels x 969 pixels
- Original file size
- 155.14 KB