ML116005221
Eurasian/American Wigeon Mareca penelope/americana
Contributor
Brian Daniels Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Huntington Central Park--West
Orange, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Female with strongly orange sides stood out like a sore thumb among the other wigeon - head darker gray-brown with darkening around eye; throat pale brownish and sort of blends in with breast (appears unspotted); in most angles bill appears to lack black border at base, but this not definitive in other views - needed to see underwing pattern, but it would the wigeon would just swim away if I got close...
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot G3 X
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 220 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 4864 pixels x 3648 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.93 MB