Oilbirds

Gallery: AvianPosted January 10, 2014160 views4 comments

Canon 1D-X, 300mm x 2.0 Teleconverter, tripod
f8, 1/50, ISO25600

Taken in a fairly dark, privately owned grotto along the Rio Guayllabamba in Ecuador. Natural light; flash is prohibited.

Oilbirds are echolocating, nocturnal frugivores and very strange birds. Their call sounds like a demented woman.

Full frame, slight sharpening. The JPEG compression is pretty steep - 65%. There are some JPEG artifacts.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on January 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM

No, that was me, Jim! What a pair of odd looking birds! I've never heard of or seen them before. I like this image with the wet rock, and them tucked in there together. Very cool...thank you for sharing! Sharon

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 10, 2014 at 7:30 PM

Very cool looking birds, Jim. I'll bet it's stunning w/o the JPEG compression. Detail looks excellent. Interesting to see that it really is possible to push the camera to that iso and get good images.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on January 11, 2014 at 5:02 PM

I assume I am reading the ISO correct in 25,600? If so that is an amazing shot giving the lighting conditions. I have never heard of this bird so I had to read about it. What an interesting nocturnal bird. Well done Jim.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on January 14, 2014 at 9:22 AM

Great job! Such good detail at a very high ISO. Nice environment you caught this pair in. Thanks for sharing.

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