Black-winged Pranticole

[Ralf Nabong]

Towards the end of our Candaba sortie last Saturday with Rey, we chanced upon this bird on the main pond (It's almost totally dried-up).

Black-winged Pranticole
Canon 1D MKII, 400mm, ISO 400, Spot Metering, Manual, 1/1000 sec. @ f/8.0


Canon 1D MK II, 400mm, ISO400, Spot Metering, Manual, 1/1000 sec @ f/8.0

[Romy Ocon]

Excellent shots, Bong.... even this swift bird cannot escape the 1DM2's AF prowess!

BTW, I believe the one ranging in the Philippines is the Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum).

[tonyg14]

Bong,

Nice shots. I guess the calibration by Canon worked wonders!

Tony

[mantarey]

Wow, that's a great BIF shot Bong, worth spending all that time under the hot sun. Catching that swift bird surely made me dizzy, though it's a good drill, let's do it again soon.

[tina mallari]

Nice catch Bong Congratulations

[Ralf Nabong]

Thanks guys.

[Armando Somintac]

what a catch of a speedy bird sir bong.
look at those wings made to slice thru air and the streamlined head and body. WoW !

[steve pryor]

Hi Bong,
Yes, Romy is correct. Many people are confused about how to separate morphologically some of the similar appearing Pratincoles (usually confused may be the Collared, Black-winged, and Oriental Pratincoles). I can certainly understand why people are confused if they do not know why the Black-winged is called the Black-winged). For instance, in the first photo of the bird at rest the primaries appear dark (and they are) and for this feature all three are similar. However, the name Black-winged comes from the appearance of the underwing and not the external at rest coloration of the primaries. In the flight shot we can see that this is an Oriental (the Black-winged surprise, surprise, has a black underwing). The separation of the even more similar Oriental and Collared Pratincoles is done by subtle difference of the collar, the conspicuousness of the black lores, the coloration of the bill base, and also because in flight shots the trailing edge of the wing of the Collared Pratincole is terminally white for the secondaries and tertials (lacking in the Oriental).

[Ralf Nabong]

Thanks Sir Romy & Cuckooroller for the correction. Identifying these bird is as dificult in finding and photographing them. But i guess that's where the fun is. I hope I can reach the point where I can distinguished very well the nuances of the different bird species.

[Mark Itol]

Beautiful captures.