ML116918931
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Juvenile male (I think?). I was interested by the eye colors of these two birds, which were associating in a tree near the boardwalk that crosses the marshy area near the north end of the lake. Some googling led me to http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/efauna/documents/AcornWoodpecker-RT-j.pdf, which explains that the juveniles have dark eyes that lighten to the adult's light eyes before the first post juvenile molt is complete. I assumed at first that this bird was a male based on the head pattern (lacking the dark bar that separates the red and cream areas on females), but the same paper says all juveniles have the male head pattern. I think this one is likely a male regardless, because it has the larger beak that the NatGeo guide says is indicative of a male.
Technical information
- Model
- DC-FZ80
- ISO
- 80
- Focal length
- 215 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.9
- Shutter speed
- 1/160 sec
- Dimensions
- 2304 pixels x 1384 pixels
- Original file size
- 1000.12 KB