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Gypaetus barbatus
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Lucas Aguilar (laguilar)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-09-17 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Olympus Camedia C-765 UZ |
| Exposure: f/3.7, 1/200 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-09-22 3:33 |
| Viewed: 1537 |
| Points: 7 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish] |
OSPREY
Class: Birds
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Accipítridos
Length: 110-145 cm
Importance: 250-280 cm
Weigh: 5-7 kg
Putting: 1-2 eggs
Incubation: 53-60 days
Habitat: High mountain, in rocky walls
Distribution: Europa's South, North of Africa and Asia Minor and Central. In the Peninsula it is present in the Pyrenees
Sexual maturity: 6 years
Longevity: 40 years
Description
Bird of enormous size, but of forms estilizadas and perfect. His wings are long and narrow, his long and cuneiform tail. His silhouette resembles more that of a Falcon than that of a Vulture. The adults are blackish in the back, where they have some white elongated spot. The head is clear, with black mask that falls down on the beak in a lock of black sows, like goatee. The low parts are reddish, more whites of egg in the abdomen. Some dark spots form a species of ties on the chest of the bird. This reddish tonality is not given in specimens in captivity since it owes to the contact of the feathers with the rocky walls. They are adorned with feathers up to the base of the hands, his wedges are very prominent and under these they are called the attention the small gray bluish hands. The eye is yellow and is bordered by a red circle. The young men are dark in its entirety and the tail and they them are clearer. On the back numerous white spots drawing a triangle towards the tail. They do not reach the adult's livery up to six years of age.
Nourishment
It is a rotten bird, feeding almost exclusively of bones. From the heights it will hope that the Vultures and Egyptian vultures clean of meat the dead animal and that alone the bones stay. It will take one of the bones and will transport it up to one of his fragile ones, which are areas opened with sharp-pointed stones where they will stop to fall the bones.
Reproduction
The Osprey nests in hollows of cantiles rocky, they construct a solid structure with branches and sticks that then they drape with wool, feathers and leather chunks. Every couple has several nests in his territory that changes every year, in order that the nests are clean and desparasitados before beginning the upbringing. The puttings are given from the first of January and it extends the whole month, consists of 2 eggs of white color with reddish spots. The incubation is for both sexes. The chickens are born with slightly dirtier white down to the sides of the head. The second chicken never goes out forward, is born several days later and is devoured by the female. Up to 8 weeks the chicken is not adorned with feathers totally. The chicken will fly for the first time with 100 or 120 days but it will remain with the parents several months mas and they will not reach the sexual maturity up to 6 years, though at liberty they are not in the habit of producing before the 10. They can live up to 40 years of age.
From the zoo of Jerez de la Frontera. |
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- ddg
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(5111) - [2005-09-22 3:46]
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Bonjour Lucas, superbe portrait de ce Gypaete tout mouillé !! La texture de son plumage est remarquable. Un peu cramé sur le dessus de la tête! Mes félicitations Didier.
A good portrait but maybe the increased sharpening and artificial bluring gives it a strange feel. But I like it !
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- Janice
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(18648) - [2005-09-22 5:13]
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Wow! He looks a bit of a scruffy mess, doesn't he? Good portrait Lucas, a little over exposed on the head, but still a great photo. Well done.
To me this looks like it's been much too over processed to the point where all the feather detail has been smoothed away to nothing. Too much noise reduction, and too much sharpening... which is a shame because the colour and exposure are good.
Hi Lucas
What an untidy looking bird. Good close shot although it may have been cropped too much or too much post processing. The top of the head is over exposed too. But with saying all that, I am pleased you posted it as I have never seen this bird before. Thanks. :-)
