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Shaft-tailed Whydah

Shaft-tailed Whydah - Adult male in breeding plumage

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Etosha National Park

Country image taken

» Namibia

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

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

Bird Species

»Vidua regia - Shaft-tailed Whydah

Bird Species (French)

»Veuve royale

Bird Family

»Viduidae - Indigobirds, Whydahs

Bird Group

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

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Manual exposure 1/2500 sec, f7.1 ISO 640. 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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