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Location

Off Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape
South Africa

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 256 mm
Exposure 1/1250 s, f/5.0, ISO 320 
Image size 800 x 533 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Kaptölpel Dutch  Kaapse Jan van Gent
Italian  Sula del Capo Spanish  Alcatraz de El Cabo

Comments

Note the two features which separate this Cape Gannet from the Australasian are illustrated here: the longer black throat streak and the entirely black tail. In the Australasian species, the black throat streak is short and the tail is variable: from just central feather pair black to entirely black tail.




 
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    22/11/2010

Cape Gannet
Morus capensis
Fou du Cap
Jean-Michel PAULUS