ML142013881

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Tags

Multiple species

Observation details

Single bird, at the Koror Sewerage ponds. By itself initially but it moved in with long toed stints and wood sandpipers, allowing close comparisons. When it first took off I noticed a strong dark tail center – that seemed odd. I did not know at the time that this would align with white outer tail feathers. (bnote that on subsequent visits I was able to confirm that feature fully). Although it was near to sunset I was able to get reasonably good scope views. I could clearly see that the long toed stints all had streaked upper-breasts, whereas this bird had a grey breast with no patterning visible at all. It used a repeating feeding motion with its head low down, drilling, similar to what red-neck stints do at times, but the bird did not move while feeding as much as red-neck stints do. I did not hear it call.

Technical information

Model

DMC-GH4

Lens

LEICA DG 100-400/F4.0-6.3

ISO

800

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/1250 sec

Dimensions

3000 pixels x 4000 pixels

Original file size

804.88 KB