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Spotted Redshank


Spotted Redshank
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Copyright: Pekka Valo (pekkavalo1) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 428 W: 53 N: 1796] (5791)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-08-13
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 40D, Sigma EX 500mm f4.5 APO HSM, RAW ISO 640, Kenko Teleplus Pro 300 DG 1.4x
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/800 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): CeltickRanger's favorite Bird photos -2- [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-08-15 0:53
Viewed: 349
Points: 24
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An adult Spotted Redshank in breeding plumage at RSPB Elmley Marshes nature reserve.

As Ivan (Argus) has correctly noticed the breeding plumage has started to moult which you can see as larger pale spots. I have posted another picture as WORKSHOP displaying the winter plumage taken few days earlier at the same location.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is an Arctic bird, breeding across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia. It is a migratory species, wintering around the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia, usually on fresh or brackish water. It is an occasional vagrant in Australia and North America.

It is 29-33 cm long. It is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter. It has a red legs and bill, and shows a white oval on the back in flight. Juveniles are grey-brown finely speckled white above, and have pale, finely barred underparts. It nests on open boggy taiga, laying four eggs in a ground scrape. The call is a creaking whistle teu-it (somewhat similar to the call of a Roseate Tern), the alarm call a kyip-kyip-kyip. Like most waders, it feed on small invertebrates.

The Spotted Redshank is replaced as a breeding bird further south by the Common Redshank, which has a shorter bill and legs, and is brown and white above with some dark patterning below, becoming somewhat lighter-toned in winter.

Taxonomically, it forms a close-knit group with the Greater Yellowlegs and the Greenshank, which among them show all the basic leg and foot colours of the shanks, demonstrating that this character is paraphyletic (Pereira & Baker, 2005). These three species are the largest shanks apart from the Willet, which is altogether more robustly built.

The Spotted Redshank is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2885 W: 169 N: 8419] (26122)
  • [2008-08-15 1:56]
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Hello Pekka,
An excellent close capture of a Spotted Redshank that is just beginning to moult its breeding plumage. Technically superb with fine lighting and pose and set in a pleasing composition.
TFS this beauty,
Ivan

Hello Pekka,

You have captured its plummage very well. I didn't realise that they were so chocolaty brown!
An excellent pose showing it wading through the water and very well composed.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

Hello Pekka,

Very beautiful picture of this Redshank. Very good focus. I like the pose of the bird. Light and colours are great. You could capture the water with its olive colour very well.
Cheers,
Mariki

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  • EOSF1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1431 W: 128 N: 5269] (23315)
  • [2008-08-15 11:08]

Hello Pekka, good subject, great shot! Good pose, excellent sharpness and a fine exposure, well done, thanks!

Mario

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2225 W: 10 N: 6271] (23562)
  • [2008-08-15 11:16]
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Hi Pekka. You have posted another fine bird picture for use to see. I see you use a 500 lens and a convertar i wondered how you got so close. good detail in the Moulting feathers. with good detail. well done TFS.
Nick..

Hello Pekka, you have captured the colours on this so well, great control to have such a neutral background, but a stunningly colourful and sharp bird...first rate image. regards h

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  • lousat Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1135 W: 6 N: 3148] (11634)
  • [2008-08-15 12:54]

Hi Pekka,i never seen a curious bird like that,the moment to take the pic is perfect,the water as background is a great choice,very excellent work,perfect colors and sharpness,my best compliments and thanks to show us this beauty,Luciano

hello pekka,
lovely shot of Spotted Redshank, liked the pov and the composition,
well done,
tfs & regards
pankaj

hello Pekka

excellent close-up shot of the Spotted Redshank,
fine POV and framing, his pose in movement
it is giving dynamism to the image, TFS

Asbed

This is a nice sharp and well exposed image Pekka. I would like to see more space at the bottom... leaving room for the legs whether or not one can see them in the water.


TFS
Evelynn : )

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1030 W: 4 N: 2702] (12410)
  • [2008-08-16 4:17]

Hello Pekka, Oh beauty what a shot. Superb colors and nice view. Lovely sharp picture and wonderful composition. Ganesh

Hi Pekka

Great shot of this moulting redshank. That big lens give great results (as it should). Great composition and sharpness.

Chris

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