ML196439301
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- Age
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- Sex
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Media notes
The field marks described in the detail are shown here, except the back. The four of got to see this second appearance.
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
- 200
- Focal length
- 172 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.9
- Shutter speed
- 1/400 sec
- Dimensions
- 3980 pixels x 2972 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.64 MB