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Location

Marlborough Sounds, South Island
New Zealand

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 352 mm
Exposure 1/1600 s, f/5, ISO 400 
Image size 800 x 534 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Australtölpel Dutch  Pacifische Jan van Gent
Italian  Sula australiana Spanish  Alcatraz Australiano

Comments

Note that the central tail feathers are black, whereas the outer ones are white. In the Cape Gannet, the tail is entirely black.




 
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    14/03/2011

Australasian Gannet
Morus serrator
Fou austral
Micheline JACQUEMIN