ML195915541
Aythya sp. Aythya sp.
Contributor
Reid Hardin Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Hill Country Galleria
Travis, Texas, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
This is the bird that had been reported as a Red Crested Pochard. I would say that this is definitely not that bird. It is most likely a Redhead x Red Breasted Merganser. Overall redhead shape, dark back with red eyes and a slender, toothed and hooked merganser-like bill with pink markings. Redhead bills are absent of these markings and have a black bean. Photos included. Several birders I talked to agreed on the merganser x redhead parentage.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- ISO
- 5000
- Focal length
- 233 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 5184 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.79 MB