ML122810861
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- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Media notes
Photo taken by Paula Wilkerson.
Observation details
Sitting at Alligator Den rain shelter, I sensed a bird nearby. To my left, 15-18 ft. south of the shelter, stood a seemingly dead cypress tree encircled by a strangler fig. On a bare branch of the fig perched the BBCU. Able to clearly view the cuckoo for almost 20 minutes in that position. Slender dark bill, gray lower mandible, slight buffy wash on throat, uniformly brownish above but lacking the prominent rufous coloration on its primaries (which YBCU have), also indistinct tips to undertail compared to obvious white spots of YBCU. I walked closer to the bird and sat atop the boardwalk railing opposite side. Fortunately the BBCU stayed essentially in place. So obviously a black-billed I put 10 folks (some with cameras) onto it. Two people offered to send pics, so I'll post when they come. A lifer for some!
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS REBEL T3i
- Lens
- TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/11.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 2113 pixels x 2590 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.49 MB