Now that I can shoot 600mm from the boardwalk, I am not getting that shot-from-above look as much.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/7
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Shutter Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
600 mm
ISO
320
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/1330 sec
Date/Time
Sun 22 Nov 2009 11:35:42 AM EST
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Defined: DKZ00039
English American Coot
Scientific (Fulica americana)
Order GRUIFORMES
Family (Latin) Rails, Crakes & Coots
Family (English) Rallidae
Other name(s) americana
Breeding Regions NA, MA, SA
Breeding Range Subregions Alaska and Canada to Costa Rica, also n South America
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Bahamas,Belize,Bermuda,British Virgin Islands,Canada,Cayman Islands,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba,Dominican Republic, Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Guatemala,Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica,Mexico,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua, Panama,Puerto Rico,Saint Lucia,Trinidad and Tobago,Turks and Caicos Islands,United States - mainland,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
americana se Alaska and Canada to Costa Rica and the West Indies
columbiana Colombia and n Ecuador
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Gmelin, JF, 1789
German Indianerblässhuhn
French Foulque d’Amérique
Chinese 美洲骨顶
Japanese アメリカオオバン
Russian Американская лысуха
Spanish Focha americana
Portuguese galeirão-americano
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)