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Location

Campo Lugar Plains, Extremadura
Spain

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 640 mm
Exposure 1/800, f/13.0, ISO 800 
Image size 800 x 534 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Großtrappe Dutch  Grote Trap
Italian  Otarda eurasiatica Spanish  Avutarda Común

Comments

This Great Bustard, in its autumnal plumage, was barely visible with the naked eye, far away in the Extremadura steppes, 20 miles at the south of the city of Trujillo.




 
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    01/10/2013

Great Bustard autumn plumage
Otis tarda
Outarde barbue
Jean-Michel PAULUS