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thats_wildlife

thats_wildlife

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Dear community,

this time I come up with a shot quite common for me in the surroundings of the mystic flood plains of Danube river in Europe/Austria.
One might think of it as a double exposure. Wrong! These are two different animals.
It was late on a foggy afternoon as one the egrets/herons sat on the perch as I saw the other approaching and attacking the first one, forcing him to take off and finally occupied the perch for itself. The bright white of the birds causes me always to underexpose to prevent highlight clipping on the birds especially with dark background that the exposure meter insists to turn into neutral grey:cool: . With this underexposure of 2 stops the misty wood of the floodplains got even darker.
100% SilverHeronConcentrate by Michael Furtner, on Flickr

Nikon D7500, Sigma500/4 with 1,4TC, 1/2000, f5,6; ISO 7200; -2 expcomp

Any comment and hint from you is warmly welcome🙏

Mike from thats_wildlife

PS: I beg for mercy because I never know how to distinguish egrets from herons. In German language there is only a single word for both of them....
 
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thats_wildlife said:
Dear community,

this time I come up with a shot quite common for me in the surroundings of the mystic flood plains of Danube river in Europe/Austria.
One might think of it as a double exposure. Wrong! These are two different animals.
It was late on a foggy afternoon as one the egrets/herons sat on the perch as I saw the other approaching and attacking the first one, forcing him to take off and finally occupied the perch for itself. The bright white of the birds causes me always to underexpose to prevent clipping the birds. Thus the misty wood of the floodplains got even darker.
100% SilverHeronConcentrate by Michael Furtner, on Flickr

Nikon D7500, Sigma500/4 with 1,4TC, 1/2000, f5,6; ISO 7200

Any comment and hint from you is warmly welcome🙏

Mike from thats_wildlife

PS: I beg for mercy because I never know how to distinguish egrets from herons. In German language there is only a single word for both of them....
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Great Egret(y)
 
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thats_wildlife said:
Thank you for clarification. Is there a certain rule or criteria of what is egret and what is heron?
Mike
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All herons and egrets are in the family Ardeidae, they are separated by genus. The way they are grouped is based on their genetic relationship.

Genus:

EGRETS
Egretta

HERONS
Ardea

To confuse the issue, Night Herons are a separate Genus - Nycticorax and Tiger Herons, which belong to Genus - Tigrisoma

There are also some common naming exceptions to the above.

Try not to think about it too much!!:)
 
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diver53 said:
All herons and egrets are in the family Ardeidae, they are separated by genus. The way they are grouped is based on their genetic relationship.

Genus:

EGRETS
Egretta

HERONS
Ardea

To confuse the issue, Night Herons are a separate Genus - Nycticorax and Tiger Herons, which belong to Genus - Tigrisoma

There are also some common naming exceptions to the above.

Try not to think about it too much!!:)
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THAT helps a lot. Thank you!
So in Austria I can say that we have two species of Ardeidae. The one on the photo above, egretta alba. And the second, areda cinerea. Please help me with your local names. This might help me to label future shots correctly in this forum 🙏
Mike from thats_wildlife
 
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areda cinerea = Grey heron. Europe, Asia and Africa. Not found in the Americas
egretta alba = Called Great Egret in the Americas and usually Great White Egret in Europe. There are quite a few local names. This species is cosmopolitan.
 
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