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Southern Masked Weaver

Southern Masked Weaver - Adult male coming into breeding plumage

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Swakopmund (urban)

Country image taken

» Namibia

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 400mm handheld

Bird Species

»Ploceus velatus - Southern Masked Weaver

Bird Species (French)

»Tisserin à tête rousse

Bird Family

»Ploceidae - Weavers, Malimbes, Bishops, Widowbirds, Fodies

Bird Group

»Passeriformes Flycatchers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Swallows, Warblers, Weavers etc

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Manual exposure 1/800 sec, f7.1 ISO 1250. Lighting adjustments, NR, cropping and digital lens optimiser applied in Canon DPP 4. Exported 16 bit TIFF file processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin to reduce noise. Sharpened after final size reduction.

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