ML151294281
Contributor
Brian Daniels Media from this contributor
Date
Location
与那国島 (Yonaguni-jima (island)) (もっと具体的な場所をご検討ください - please consider using a more specific location)
Yonaguni, Okinawa, Japan
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
We encountered this shrike as we drove thru the small town of Kubura located at the west end of the island. After some photographs from the car, the shrike flew off and we were not able to relocate it. These photos show an obvious pale gray crown suggestive of the southern race lucionensis, which is a winter visitor to the Ryukyu Islands (OSJ 2012). However, these photos also show some (warm) brown mixed with gray from the center to rear part of the crown. Perhaps this would be acceptable on a 1st year male lucionensis, but I don’t think this bird can be aged from these photos. As such, it would be best to leave it as a Brown Shrike and not identify it to a subspecific level.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 215 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/200 sec
- Dimensions
- 2816 pixels x 2112 pixels
- Original file size
- 1002.9 KB