ML196440271
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Probably the best overall photo of the bird, this one showing some of the dull, grayish-brown back and gray nape. The team got to see this appearance in the field.
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
- 3646 pixels x 3134 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.7 MB