ML201668281 IBC 1186889
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
possible immature male atop telephone pole taking flight. This bird was first discovered 25 January 2011 by an acquaintance of Lee Johnson. I videotaped the bird yesterday (29 January) from a great distance. Today (30 January), I arrived at 700 a.m., saw the bird on a telephone pole along the road, set my camera on a tripod a little more than another telephone pole away, and started taping. At 730 a.m. another person drove up and parked near the bird> he left the vehicle and walked directly toward the bird until it flushed. The day was overcast and windy. The bird perched atop a 30-foot pole along busy State Route 72, 3 miles east of Shannon. The bird was 440 feet away, hence this footage is cropped by half vertically and horizontally. The distance was estimated from the size of the bird (2 ft), the 36% of the 3.92 mm-wide CMOS receptor (how much the bird covered the frame), and the maximum focal length of the camera (78mm) x 2 (tele-extender attached). Let me know if my calculation is flawed. Elevation: 291 m. Date added to IBC: June 23, 2016.
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Technical information
- Camera
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 11.62 MB