Microcarbo melanoleucos
Little Pied Cormorant at Kambah, ACT
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| Microcarbo melanoleucos | ChrisDavey | 30 Mar 2016 | |
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | MichaelMulvaney | 18 Mar 2016 | |
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | ArcherCallaway | 14 Mar 2016 |
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User's notes
Circling over the golf club (recorded on ebird).
4 comments
16 Mar 2016
Aaron,
when we photograph a bird in flight (or even on a tree) & they are quite some distance away (or in this case over reserve boundaries), should we edit to show the approximate location beneath the bird or just stick with camera coordinates of your location
when we photograph a bird in flight (or even on a tree) & they are quite some distance away (or in this case over reserve boundaries), should we edit to show the approximate location beneath the bird or just stick with camera coordinates of your location
16 Mar 2016
Hi Ryu, You raise a really good point. Bottom line is that if you are able to edit the sighting to increase the accuracy to as close as possible to where the bird actually was, then yes I agree that's good practice. But if it's difficult to estimate and/or you miss it, it's also fine because really the shot kind of self-documents the distance from the photographer as well and we accept that birds move around etc. Cheers Aaron.
16 Mar 2016
I have 60x zoom on mine and this one is cropped too (but I don't think full zoom to start with). I do have another one of 12 great cormorants in flight from the same morning which was really far away as in several paddocks but I was on a higher vantage point so I got a zoomed up photo
Location information
- Coordinates 149.034224-35.387624
- Altitude 618.0m
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 14 Mar 2016 09:38 AM Recorded on
- ArcherCallaway Recorded by
Collections
- ArcherCallaway Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Microcarbo melanoleucos Colonial nesters (Herons, Cormorants, etc) Water birds Birds
Species information
- Microcarbo melanoleucos Scientific name
- Little Pied Cormorant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 994.9m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Seasonal activity
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Nesting site
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