ML125245171
Contributor
Roger Beardmore Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Salmon Arm--mouth of Salmon River
Columbia-Shuswap, British Columbia, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Tomial tooth (triangular-shaped ridge on the outer edge of the upper mandible) is visible in this photo. Primarily used to kill by biting the necks and severing vertebrae and spinal cord to dispatch their prey. This adaptation is often matched by a mandibular notch or divot in the lower mandible, that is most often found in falcons, kites, accipiters and other birds such as shrikes that primarily prey on birds.
Observation details
Perching in tall cottonwood tree just west of Peter Janink Park.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7200
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/9.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1573 pixels x 1181 pixels
- Original file size
- 289.13 KB