Whooping Cranes Grus americana in Texas
at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Notice the orange and yellow eyes of the paired birds. Videotaped on 3 February 2008 by Malcolm Mark Swan during a San Antonio Audubon Society tour led by Helen Resjek aboard Tommy Moore's Skimmer out of Fulton/Rockport and along the Intracoastal Waterway. Time: Around 2 PM, overcast & hazy. 1080/30p frames at f5.6, shutter 1/1500, gain +3 on Sony HVR-VIU with Century Pro HD 2x tele-converter. Mac OSX and iMovie HD 6 converted MPEG2 HDV to Apple Intermediate Codec. Frames dragged from iMovie view to Adobe Photoshop 5.5, then exported as jpegs with medium (30%) quality. Layout by Photosite Timesaviour

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