Eleonora's Falcon
Photo 1 - Drama while hunting: An extraordinary observation of a group of Eleonora's falcons hunting a migrating pigeon. While the pigeon has escaped (upper right corner), three Eleonora's falcons have their claws caught with eachother. They start falling towards the sea (low left corner of the photo) without being able to disentagle!
  • Halcón de Eleonora
  • falcão-da-rainha
  • Eleonorenfalke
  • Falco eleonorae
  • Falconiformes

The species

Classification

Order  : Falconiformes
Family : Falconidae
Species : Eleonora's Falcon

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O.Net ref. : doza154652
Author :
Dreams of ... Nature ...

Shooting

date : 2012 Sep
Country : Spain (sp)
Region : Balearic Islands
Place : Islas Baleares Islas Baleares
Lat. : 39° 30' 0'' North
Lng. : 3° 0' 0'' East

Exif Data [+] [-]



Model : Canon EOS 7D

Exposure : 1/1250 s

aperture : 8


Focal length : 390 mm


Iso : 800


Flash : no