ML704430 IBC 1008537
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
A bird on the ground with a seed in the beak. Published in HBW Volume 12 on page 686. Original HBW caption: Although food-caching has not been reported for the Yellow-bellied Tit, it is known in several other members of the Periparus clade. While this individual may be foraging on the ground, a not unusual event in some parids, it is perhaps more likely that it is carrying a seed to a cache, or indeed retrieving it. The main food-caching tits are in Periparus and Poecile, some of which cache hundreds of thousands of items per year, and are known to retrieve up to 95% of their caches. The recall necessary to achieve this feat is quite astounding, and presumably contributes to the evolution of parid intelligence. IBC scientific name: Pardaliparus venustulus. Elevation: 387 m. Date added to IBC: June 21, 2016.
Collection
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 20D
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 840 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 1800 pixels x 1228 pixels
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 30 Jan 2020 - Matthew D. Medler
- Digitized
- 30 Jan 2020 - Matthew D. Medler