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Thank you very much, Steven. Much appreciated!
Bar-tailed Godwit
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Lovely captureBar-tailed Godwit photos. Flies from Alaska to Australia for the summer months here - a non-stop flight of over 10,000kms (6200miles) across the Pacific, the longest known non-stop flight of any bird!
The 800 pf proved invaluable as these birds would not let me get too close and they were foraging for food in tha sand in an area where there are people swimming etc. I did manage to get a little closer the longer I was there and they seemed to see I was not such a big threat. However, I was still a good distance from them and these were cropped about 30%. Click on image to see them at full size.
1) Bar-tailed Godwit, female.
Z9 + 800 f6.3 PF, 1/4000s f/6.3 at 800.0mm iso640
2) Bar-tailed Godwit, female.
Z9 + 800 f6.3 PF, 1/2500s f/6.3 at 800.0mm iso450
3) Bar-tailed Godwit, male in breeding plumage - the orange/tan feathers.
Z9 + 800 f6.3 PF, 1/4000s f/6.3 at 800.0mm iso560
4) Bar-tailed Godwit, male in breeding plumage.
Z9 + 800 f6.3 PF, 1/4000s f/6.3 at 800.0mm iso560
5) Silver Gull.
Z9 + 800 f6.3 PF, 1/4000s f/6.3 at 800.0mm iso560
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Thank you very much, Kumar. Much appreciated!Lovely capture
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Great photo's Lance ! Good to see the male/female difference.
Some of them have already left New Zealand, we'll see them again in Sept. /Oct.
Some of them have already left New Zealand, we'll see them again in Sept. /Oct.
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Thank you very much, Stumpy. Much appreciated!
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In order to provide energy for the long flight, the godwit builds fat stores to sustain it on its flight. It also absorbs up to 25 percent of the tissue comprising its liver ,kidneys, and alimentary canal and increases the size of its pectoralis muscles, heart and lungs. It flies nonstop and after it completes its migration the atrophied organs are reformed to their premigration status. A truly amazing series of events which is described in some detail in the book " A World on the Wing: The Global Oddyssey of Migratory Birds " by Scott Weidensaul.
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Thank you for the extra information, Art.