Common Gallinule
by Dennis Plank
This is one of a pair that hung out in the cattails in front of the Indigo Inn on Drayton Island, where we stayed while in Florida (Mike rented the whole place for five or six weeks). The weed beds are so deep that the dock has to go out about 300 feet to get to the edge and I's go out there to photograph in the morning. This pair would venture out into the water hyacinth to forage, though they usually stayed some distance from the dock. On this morning one of them ventured a little closer and actually put on a bit of a display for me.
7D2, Sigma 150-600 C @ 361 mm (should have zoomed in all the way for this shot), hand held, f/5.6, 1/2500, iso 640, manual exposure. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 4.3 MP before resizing. Taken at 8:14 AM on March 30th.
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6 commentsSteve Thompson:
Drew Weber is the founder and editor of Nemesis Bird and now works to curate some of the best content the web has to offer on birding and ornithology from an energetic crew of ornithologists, field researchers, tour leaders and photographers. He writes this: I am sure you have heard by now that this years update to the AOU’s checklist shows that the Common Moorhen has officially been split into two separate species. The bird found throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa is now known as the ‘Eurasian Moorhen’ (Gallinula chloropus) however the species found here in North America, as well as South America, is now called the ‘Common Gallinule’ (Gallinula galeata).