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White-backed Vulture feeding

White-backed Vulture feeding - 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

»Gyps africanus - White-backed Vulture

Bird Species (French)

»Vautour africain

Bird Family

»Accipitridae - Kites, Hawks, Eagles

Bird Group

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

Bird Status

» Critically Endangered

Remarks

» A pride of lions had claimed this elephant carcass and were chasing the vultures off every time they started feeding. Manual exposure 1/800 sec, f8 ISO 1000. 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. Sharpen after final size reduction.

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