Emperor Goose - Bob Boekelheide
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Date

Location

Dungeness NWR
Clallam, Washington, United States
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Map
Map Coordinates: 48.1628795, -123.164978
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Juvenile. Heavy molt on head. Orange legs, lovely gray-blue back and sides with scalloped edges to feathers, white tail. On north side of Dungeness Spit at about mile 2.5. Initially it was hanging out on beach near some gulls, then it went into the water and swam offshore. Eating eelgrass. It was a puzzle at first, since all the Emperors I've seen in the past have had white heads. The back feathers and wing coverts gave it away, though.

Technical information

Model
COOLPIX B700
ISO
100
Focal length
258 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire, auto
f-stop
f/6.5
Shutter speed
1/320 sec
Dimensions
3603 pixels x 2702 pixels
Original file size
1.62 MB