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White-eared bulbul

Pycnonotus leucotis

Description:

A pair of white-eared bulbuls flying far and catching sunset colours across the Eastern mangroves of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Flying with their wings in perfect opposite phase...

Habitat:

Coastal, mangrove.

Notes:

Distribution: Arabic peninsula, Kuwait, mid and southern Iraq, southern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of India. To learn more about these mangroves see http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/634...

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16 Comments

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thanks Geodialist! This picture was taken with a Nikon D7000 body, at the long end of a Nikon 70-300 VR lens, hand held from a kayak. Unfortunately I'm travelling at the moment and don't have access to the EXIF data, but it would have been a fast shutter speed. Now I didn't "unfav" the muskrat! I am a fan of all rodents:-) But it has indeed disappeared from my list of favourites. I am not sure that you can "unfav" spottings but I will play with it. In any case this is a glitch and I will signal it to Peter and Yasser. Now I will "refav" the muskrat!

Geodialist
Geodialist 12 years ago

Awesome photo, Daniele! Two technical questions: 1) What photo gear did you use? 2) What were the camera settings, e.g., f-stop, shutter speed, etc.? Unrelated topic: Last night I took a quick look at the PN Home page. I noticed you favorited my "Common Muskrat" spotting. I don't see your avatar on the muskrat spotting page this morning -- did you unfavorite my spotting? (Is that possible?) Weird stuff!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thanks IvánDurán!

IvánDurán
IvánDurán 12 years ago

impressive shot!!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thank you Atul and LauraMaria! It was one of those lucky moments... the second bird made all the difference.

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 12 years ago

Beautiful moment, they look like stills from an animation of a bird flying!

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

whatta snap daniele

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thank you EdDayrit!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thank you Elsa! A lucky moment...

Elsa
Elsa 12 years ago

Stunning!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thank you Carolina! You're very kind.

Carolina
Carolina 12 years ago

I could buy this picture, beautiful! :)

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thank you Greeneda!

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

:)

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Thank you Sarah!

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

Cool shot, Daniele! :)

DanielePralong
Spotted by
DanielePralong

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Spotted on May 14, 2011
Submitted on Jun 3, 2011

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