ML196437681
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
A poor photo that shows the dull, grayish brown back of the bird well, in good light. This is the first sighting, without the other team members present.
Observation details
Please see photos. Dull grayish-brown back. Bright white breast with thick, black ticking. Solid gray facial disc with a dull rufous/brown crown. Orange-yellow eye. Long, black, down-curved bill. Upper mandible black. Lower mandible black, with a small bit of lighter color at the base. Bird did not vocalize. I did extensive research, looking at dozens of photos in the Macauley Library of both Brown Thrasher and Long-billed. No Brown Thrasher image that I saw had the combination of all the fieldmark described above. Browns can have short and long bills with lighter to darker colors. Brown's facial disc varies from rufous/brown with possible white streaking, never all gray. Browns' backs can be anywhere from bright rufous to a duller rufous, but not grayish brown. Browns' breast can be white with dark thicker, but also a light cream color with thin brownish ticking. Eye color on Browns varies from a mustard-yellow to orange. Long-billed Thrashers can have rich, rufous-like backs with rufous-brown mixed in with the grayish facial disc. Eye color is always yellow-orange in all the photos that I examined.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX720 HS
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 31.3 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 1491 pixels x 1244 pixels
- Original file size
- 707.99 KB