ML155966911
Contributor
Roy Netherton Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Bathtub Beach
Martin, Florida, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Compact, short legged tern with small red bill featuring dusky tip to upper mandible. Dark hood extends nearly to gape. Wingtip when perched a uniform gray. Belly and Throat grayish. In flight upper wing an even gray, underwing white with narrow dark tips to primaries. Flight buoyant and graceful. Observed flying in from offshore, joined a small congregation of shorebirds / terns on the beach where it rested and preened for a few minutes before heading back out to sea.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 232.7 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 4034 pixels x 2884 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.07 MB