African Bird Club

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Chobe River near Kasane

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 360mm handheld

Bird Species

»Chlidonias hybrida - Whiskered Tern

Bird Species (French)

»Guifette moustac

Bird Family

»Laridae - Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» There is some chance this is a White-winged black tern but the grey rump is suggestive of Whiskered Tern. Manual exposure 1/2000 sec, f7.1 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 and sharpen after final size reduction.