Shore plover - Thinornis novaeseelandiae
This image was taken at Plimmerton, not far from Mana Island, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand. It was captured handheld with the Sony A900 full frame 24.6 megapixel digital camera, using the Sony 70-300G lens, at a focal length of 160 mm, with an exposure of 1/800 second, F/11, ISO-500. Note that this image has been saved at a low quality and displayed at a relatively small size. Therefore, when this image is printed at full resolution, it looks a great deal sharper and shows a lot more detail.
To give you an appreciation of the clarity of the image when enlarged, below is a crop of a small area of the above image:
Shore plover - Thinornis novaeseelandiae at Plimmerton, near Wellington, New Zealand
Here is another picture of the shore plover birds in flight:
Shore plover - Thinornis novaeseelandiae at Plimmerton, near Wellington, New Zealand. You can see Mana Island in the background.
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Click here to see a high definition video of the shore plover birds in flight.
Click here to see another short high definition video that I recorded of the shore plover birds.
Click here to read a discussion about the shore plovers on the BirdingNZ.net "Bird Sightings and Alerts" forum.
Click here to see a warning notice about the Shore Plover birds at Plimmerton.
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