Photographing Wrybill In New Zealand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In this Field Vlog I search the braided rivers beneath New Zealand's Mount Cook to photograph an iconic and unique shorebird, the Wrybill.
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I am a Wildlife Photographer and Cinematographer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a Senior Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers and have been photographing birds and wildlife professionally for the last 25 years. I am best known for my work documenting endangered birds and conservation issues around the world including the enigmatic Spoon-billed Sandpiper. My book, The Living Bird, was a New York Times Bestseller and National Outdoor Book Award winner and my work is published regularly in magazines including National Geographic, BBC Wildlife and Audubon. My work has also been featured in media outlets including NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Morning Edition, and The New York Times. My film work has been featured in the PBS Nature series and in film festivals including Jackson Wild, Mountain Film, and the Banff World Tour.
These birds are traveling more than me! 🐦✈
hopefully I can join you birding in New Zealand.
Spectacular.
Keep up with your passion. 👍👍 I like your videos. 👍
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Great VLOG Gerrit
Thanks 👍
Beautiful bird, beautiful photos
Gerrit, this is a fabulous video! I love how your videos are such a great blend of storytelling, natural history and photography instruction. Always looking forward to your next one!
Thank you, Doug!
What a pleasant video.
Thank you for sharing this adventure with us.
Beautiful pictures you made. I love shorebirds too. The beak is really special. great video. Greets Stefan
Thank you Stefan!
the man the myth the legend has returned
Amazing footage and images! Such a pleasure to learn about the Wrybill👍
Thank you!
Quite magical. Wonderful. Well done. Thank you, Gerrit. ATA
Thanks Travis!
Beautiful! I didn’t know about Wrybills, so this was a lovely introduction.
Super, thank you!
Thanks for the video and images. I recall photographing these birds using Velvia.
I have a file cabinet full of those memories too :)
Great video. Never heard of the Wrybill before. Amazing close-ups!
Thank you!!
beautiful video Gerrit! And you took some fantastic photos
Thank you!
Whoa, didn’t know you had a TH-cam channel Gerritt. What a wonderful vlog!
Just barely :) Thanks Mark!
Great video. Can I ask, with the Z9 and the videos here, is the bird being tracked automatically or are you pulling focus manually or using some kind of spot focusing?
I've been manually focusing with DSLR video for many years so am pretty adept at pulling focus and predicting focus, even with the poor monitoring. That said, the new tracking is a potential game changer in some situations and I have been experimenting with it. I haven't used it enough yet to have it dialed in so I relied mostly on manual focusing but did try some sequences with autofocus.
Great video. A few questions.
How far did you hike to get to the spot?
Which tripod did you use?
I saw you put the tripod in the water but it didn’t look like you have protection
on bottom of legs, did you?
Thanks!
I saw the first Wrybill about a quarter of a mile for where I was parked. I was out all day and probably covered 2-3 miles just exploring difference areas of the braider river. I only had my Gitzo tripod (not sure which model that one is) with a Wimberley gimbal head (not recommended for video!). I generally don't worry about putting my tripod in fresh water especially if I am not likely to be submerging the joints. If I am in salt or muddy water or submerging beyond the leg joints I use these Avocet Tripod Waders from Tragopan: photographyblinds.com/collections/tripod-accessories/products/avocet-tripod-waders
I love your videos and my only complaint is that you don't post enough of them lol
I also love wrybills but have never photographed them during the nesting season or in braided river beds.
I'm a Kiwi bird photographer from the North Island, now living in Northern Ireland.
It was awesome watching your video and it made me quite homesick lol
Did you look for black stilts?, I know there are some nesting up where you were?
Did you photograph the black fronted terns?, they are also a favorite of mine.
Any way thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us.
Thanks Tony and yes, I had some Black Stilts and definitely lots of terns!
Thanks for taking us along on another great adventure and lesson! Really enjoyed learning about the wrybill and looking forward to your next adventure and sharing of your craft/workflow!
Thanks, John!
Nicely done! Very cool bird and setting. Do you suppose there is ever a “left-handed”Wrybill ?
Thanks, Kevin! Not that I know of.
Un vídeo realmente superior. Tengo que decir que comparto tu pasión por las aves playeras, son mis predilectas y sobre todo disfruto mucho observando y fotografiando su día a día. un saludo desde las antípodas España.
¡Muchas gracias Abel! ¡Las aves playeras son las mejores!
little dude has huge feet! wow, awesome stuff! thank you!
yes, their legs and feet are critical early on for feeding and avoiding predation so they hatch very well developed.
Wonderful video . thank you .
Thank you!
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Great shots of a really interesting bird! Looks like an awesome place for photography, and the rocks didn't look too sharp to lie upon 😁 Always a treat when you release a new video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!
Absolutely stunning. An unequaled combo of educational lesson, technical expertise, and artistry. Bravo!
Thank you very much, Gary. Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful video with beautiful footage and images! Your presentation style is excellent; a nice combination of subject information, imagery, and video. Looks like the birds really were cooperative. Thanks for taking us along and sharing, always enjoy your videos.
Much appreciated. Thank you!
Awesome clip, thanks for uploading. I love getting in amongst nature, just quietly waiting for that moment between us and the wildlife around us.
For sure!! Thanks.
Great video and pictures Gerrit. Really love your way of storytelling, music and the atmosphere you create in your images and video. Thank you so much for sharing this trip and these amazing birds with us.
Thank you!!
Such a professional video! 👍 Loved the photos as well…what a cool experience! 😍
Thanks Linda!
That was a beautiful video with excellent images, and in a really gorgeous location. You really had me smiling when the chicks snuggled under mom! What a thrill for you that they got so close! I can't get down on rocks like that anymore so thank you for doing it!!
It’s getting harder and harder and harder to lie on those rocks etc. for me too :) thank you!
That was awesome Gerritt, thank you so much for doing this and then sharing the process and of course the photographs. It was especially wonderful to see the chicks and the brooding parent. It was so nice to see the vistas and waterways for that area of the world. Keep up this good work and thank you again.
Much appreciated Peter. Thank you!