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Hooded Vulture

Hooded Vulture - Adult

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Chobe National Park northern section

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

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

Bird Species

»Necrosyrtes monachus - Hooded Vulture

Bird Species (French)

»Vautour charognard

Bird Family

»Accipitridae - Kites, Hawks, Eagles

Bird Group

»Accipitriformes Secretarybird, Ospreys, Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Vultures

Bird Status

» Critically Endangered

Remarks

» Large numbers of vultures had gathered to feed on a dead elephant. Manual exposure 1/1000 sec, f8 ISO 1000, AI Servo AF. 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 reduced noise. Sharpen after final size reduction.

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