ML170210401
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Observation details
****MEGA. First North American record away from Attu Island, 2nd Western Hemisphere record, 5th North American record overall. Continuing bird at Marunich. It was seen briefly and photographed on July 28th, and not detected again until today, when I had it fly by myself and two guests calling 3 times. The calls matched Pin-tailed Snipe recordings I had listened to the afternoon before, and some photographs showed an extremely long foot projection beyond the tail, as well as showing the bill that was shorter than that of a Wilson's, and really bold tan cover patches on the upperwing contrasting strongly with the darker flight feathers. 7 of us (2 guests, Ryan O'Donnell, Scott Schuette, Houston Flores, Greg Thomson, and I) returned a couple of hours later and we saw it in flight twice more, with the second view being fairly useless. The first time, however, it called three times, and Ryan got a recording. Unfortunately the recording is pretty poor due to the strong wind and some rain, but you can hear the calls through the background noise. His recording is here: http://www.xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=pin-tailed+snipe&species_nr= This bird has still ONLY been seen in flight (A total of 7 flights over the two days it's been detected). One photo from today:
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 906 pixels x 804 pixels
- Original file size
- 202.48 KB