ML105024731
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - X
Media notes
Female Columbina minuta perched on right side of a male Columbina talpacoti.
Observation details
Photos, male and female, both sitting on wires next to Ruddy Ground-Doves (of the opposite sex!). Identified by the smaller size, much shorter tail, and purplish shiny spots on wing coverts. Bill grayish black, and smaller than the Ruddy Ground-Dove bill. Did not vocalize. Allowed approach to about 25 m. Probably a pair, but we did not see them together at the same time, but they were seen at spots less than 40 m apart and within a span of just a few minutes. This was in the bean fields about 50-100 m north of the Stabilization Pond No. 4 (in the Horticulture Zone 2 area). We could see the flock of ground doves on the wires from the Eco-trail and decided to investigate (because of some finches that were with the ground doves!). Earlier in the morning, CG observed a pair of this species together in agricultural fields about 1 km to the west, near the Zamorano coffee demonstration plot. Presumably the same pair.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 1661 pixels x 1267 pixels
- Original file size
- 283.38 KB