ML144891331
Contributor
David Shoch Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Bowmans beach
Lee, Florida, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
2 apparent elegant terns loafing on beach with sandwich terns, 1 royal tern and a few laughing gulls. Photographs taken show long decurved orange bills fading to translucent orange-yellow at the tips. No black in the bill apparent. Long shaggy crests. Otherwise similar to sandwich terns in plumage and size high breeding plumage - black crown to forehead. Not seen in flight, lost them after they flushed. Observed for about 5 minutes from 20 m distance. No apparent indications of hybrid traits - match elegants I've studied closely in California. Birds seemed to be associating as a pair
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF300mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 3407 pixels x 2272 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.7 MB