ML215402211
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Continuing bird seen at close range. This bird was flushed by a surfer a couple of times, so I got to study it fairly well. Traveling with two black oystercatchers occasionally. Black border is high on the breast, with a little bit of speckling below the border. The white wing stripe on the folded wing is intermediate in width. In flight, the white wing stripe extends to somewhere in the secondaries only, not extending to the primaries. The tail is all black, and the uppertail coverts are mostly brown with some white mixed in. So far not particularly good for a "pure" American oystercatcher. On the other hand, the underparts including belly, thighs, undertail, axillaries are all pure white. Much as I find it a boring and subjective exercise, I scored it up on the Jehl scale and came up with 29-31, which makes it a borderline "pure" bird I suppose. It seems much like other southern California "American" oystercatchers I've seen, with a slightly messier border on the breast and with the wing stripe on the shorter end.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 2500 pixels x 1876 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.07 MB