ML134040191
Contributor
Nathan Langwald Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Merritt Island NWR--Bio Lab Rd.
Brevard, Florida, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Originally found by Tim Dunkerton at the end of May 2014 and seen by others regularly afterwards. Large sandpiper with a short, dark, drooping beak; finely streaked gray and slightly reddish face; prominent 'scaled' dark feathers on back and top of tail with grayish-brown highlights; upper tail feathers becoming reddish-black in color towards rear; small round dark spots on throat becoming flat dark spots down towards chest in rows; white belly; greenish-yellow legs. Feeding in sea grass mats on mud flat with other shorebirds and gulls. Located on the Mosquito Lagoon-side of Bio Lab Road near the 90-degree bend in road. Photos:
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3100
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 2304 pixels x 1536 pixels
- Original file size
- 767.15 KB