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Stone Plover in Flight


Stone Plover in Flight
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Copyright: Satish Hanumantha Rao (satish_h) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 115 W: 0 N: 1258] (7620)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-11-27
Categories: Birds
Camera: Nikon D-200, Sigma 100-300 f/4 EX HSM
Exposure: f/8, 1/400 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-11-30 8:41
Viewed: 630
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris)also called as Stone Plover, is a very large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka into South-east Asia.

This is a species of gravel banks along rivers or near lakes, and also beaches. A single egg is laid in a bare scrape on the open shingle.

It is mainly nocturnal or crepuscular like other stone-curlews, but can frequently be seen foraging by daylight, moving slowly and deliberately, with occasional short runs. It tends to be wary and fly off into the distance ahead of the observer, employing powerful, rather stiff wingbeats.

The Great Thick-knee is a very large wader at 49–55 cm, and has a massive 7 cm upturned bill. It has unstreaked grey-brown upperparts and breast, with rest of the underparts whitish. The face has a striking black and white pattern, and the bill is black with a yellow base. The eyes are bright yellow and the legs a duller greenish-yellow.

In flight, the Great Thick-knee shows black and white flight feathers on the upperwing, and a mainly white underwing. Sexes are similar, but young birds are slightly paler than adults.

The call is a wailing whistle, given mainly at night, as with other birds in this family. The Great Thick-knee eats crabs, large insects, and other animal prey.


This was taken in Ranganathittu Bird sanctuary near Mysore. There were no birds in the sanctuary, but very few like these plovers and Ibis 's were flying here and there. I took some shots of these birds in flight.
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Hi Satish,
Wonderful in flight shot. This is an excellent example for panning technique. TFS
Regards
Anil

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  • badar Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 108 W: 0 N: 159] (785)
  • [2007-11-30 9:25]

HI Satish,
Very nice flight capture, sharp details against a blurred background. I like the pan treatment here.
TFS
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nice capture, TFS Ori

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  • smitha Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 323 W: 75 N: 1002] (3753)
  • [2007-12-09 18:09]

WOW! Fantastic inflight shot, Satish. Good focus and good panning. The motion captured on the feather tips makes it look like it it is moving.
Congrats,
Smitha.

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