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Pygmy Woodpecker


Pygmy Woodpecker
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Copyright: Fatih Sam (fthsm) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 147 W: 47 N: 435] (2909)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10-16
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 30D, Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Sahalin Birds, Woodpeckers [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-10-19 4:36
Viewed: 1354
Points: 12
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Pygmy Woodpecker (Dendrocopos kizuki)

Alternate common names: Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker

This bird is smaller than a sparrow, may be 11-13cm.
At first time I saw this bird, I supposed a kind of tit. It was moving very fast and it was very difficult to follow in a rain forest with a photo machine and bag. Then it started hitting tree trunks and looked for insects, just like a specific woodpecker.

I am not sure but this species is an endemic for Japan and also other neighbor islands. I tried but I couldn’t find any documents about it even in Japanese.

This is not a technically perfect shot I know but I’d like to share the first photo of this species in TN.
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bon travail, bon BG, bonnes couleurs
edith

Hello Fatih,
This is a sharp shot with an interesting pose of this woodpecker. However I think it is little too dark and the composition can be improved. So I took it to the WS. Ihope you don't mindTFS, regards, Ivan

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  • Zeno Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 451 W: 0 N: 975] (8383)
  • [2006-10-19 4:55]

Hi Fatih,

This is a rare bird. Beautiful pose and composition. I really like the atmosphere in this capture.
TFS.

regards,
Zeno

hi Fatih,

in my oppinion with a little increase ob brightness this can be a perfect photo. also in my oppinion a lithe off-centered of the bird will help to composition.
TF showing this bird, and TFS,
cosmln

Beautiful capture and presentation amazing colour...love the bg as well...

Hi Fatih,
No, this is not a Japanese endemic. There is one race, permutatus, that has its' range totally outside of Japan. Another race, nippon, shares a Japanese distribution (on Honshu) with some zones in NE China and S Korea. There is a third race that might be totally Japanese, seebohmi, the race of your bird, but depends on a final resolution of the Sakhalin and S Kuril Islands question. As you might know, a state of war exists between Japan and Russia, and the bone of contention are these Islands. Race seebohmi has distribution on Sakhalin, S Kuril Is., and Hokkaido.

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