Short-tailed Shearwater

[Glenn Bartley]

These guys look so similar to Sooty Shearwaters that I can't be 100% sure of this ID. But a local expert on seabirds told me this is indeed a Short-tailed.

Hope you like it!

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1273/shorttailedshearwater01.jpg

Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Shutter speed: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure compensation: -1/3
ISO: 400
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4x

[Morkel Erasmus]

this is great! love the exposure, the reflected water on the body and the blue water BG. pose is perfect. how much of FF is this?

[Kiran Poonacha]

loved this glenn, nice pose, good expo and light. the water BG looks beautiful and the little shadow adds here.. congrats.

[Harshad Barve]

this is lovely image Glenn , nice pose and super water colors
TFS

[Nate Chappell]

Sweet, congrats on getting this one which is pretty uncommon out our way.

[denise ippolito]

Glenn, Beautiful pose and I love the water reflected in the wings. I like how the wing is almost touching the water. Very nice pose and details.

[Dan Brown]

Great work as usual Glenn! Pelagic BIF photography is tough but fun, this is very nice, perfect light angle! I photographed what the "expert" standing next to me said was a Short-tail on a pelagic out of Monterey, CA a couple months ago and I couldn't see the difference from the Sootys! I guess part of the ID is in the flight behavior, flap rate, speed, etc?

[Doug Hitchcox]

Awesome photo Glenn. Love the relative stillness of the water. Pelagics out here (Atlantic Ocean) are typically so choppy that it can really distract from the bird. I would expect a Sooty to have might brighter underwing color; apparently there is some overlap though.

[Declan Troy]

Looks pretty good for a short-tailed to me. I usually have the opposite problem, picking out the sooty in the tens of thousands of short-taileds.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great flight shot with that beautiful BG!