The adult Eastern is much larger than the Eurasian by a good 6cm and has a longer curly beak. It breast and head is much buff and it has an overall browner coat. This shot was about 500-600m away at the low tide shoreline. I was testing out the Nikon P900 with its 2000mm reach. I was shooting at maximum zoom on a cloudy day. As you can see the sharpness and details is wash-out but for identity purpose its okay. You really need a lot of patient and effort from located a bird in the viewfinder and focussing . My eyes was teary and sore using the low resolution viewfinder. Unlike the Olympus new Superzoom SP100 (50x)which has a pop up dot scope sight to locate bird when using LCD screen you face a big problem to find the bird from the EVF or Screen if you use the P900 at its maximum zoom. What I have to do is zoom out and then zoom in again. Focussing in the heat haze is another problem.
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| Tawau sighting April 2023 |
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