ML103406941
Contributor
Wyatt Egelhoff Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Utqiaġvik--Nunavak Rd.
North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Male - X
Observation details
Probably the same pair seen on June 1st. Male in white "winter" plumage, aside for black retrices, red "eyebrows" and black line through the eye. A few dusky feathers visible on the crown. Timing of molt (seems pretty late) also seems to suggest Rock. Black lores indicative of Rock rather than Willow Ptarmigan. Female molted into summer plumage, overall mottled grayish-brown with golden speckling. Whitish lores and crown. Silent. Seems to be the more unusual of the two Ptarmigan species in the Barrow area.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 40D
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/8000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1202 pixels x 801 pixels
- Original file size
- 159 KB