ML224530471
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Phone through bins.
Observation details
After two hours of waiting in frigid conditions, the Curve-billed Thrasher flew in, apparently from the south, and disappeared into the backyard of the house on the NE corner of Rominger and Hiller Courts. The bird eventually came out and landed on the fence along Hiller. It stayed there for probably 20 minutes. A medium sized gray-brown bird with a long and curved bill and long tail. Upperparts gray-brown. White throat. Dark or black malar. Dull whitish underparts, dull brownish flanks, and dark spotting on the breast. Bill similar to, but not as long and curved as, California Thrasher but clearly longer and more curved than Sage Thrasher. Eye was yellow. Wings showed two faint white wing bars and vague white tips to some tertials and primaries. Definitively separated from California, LeConte's, and Crissal Thrashes by lack of orange undertail coverts, from Brown Thrasher by lack of warm brown upperparts and black spots on breast, Bendire's thrasher, which I have not seen, should have a slightly shorter and straighter bill.
Technical information
- Model
- LG Optimus Elite
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 4.1 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/184 sec
- Dimensions
- 845 pixels x 634 pixels
- Original file size
- 117.1 KB