ML259619301
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Juvenile, Unknown sex - 1
Media notes
Juvenile Baird's Sandpiper and photographed by Curtis A. Marantz on 26 August 2020 along the shore of the Salton Sea at North Shore, Riverside County, California.
Observation details
We saw one juvenile that McKernan had been taking photos of on the flats immediately off the marina, but later two juveniles together on the beach to the northwest. I also heard the grating rattle of this species at least once or twice when one of these birds took flight. Both birds appeared identical, in that they were large peep that were noticeably larger and conspicuously longer-winged than the other peep. Moreover, they had straight bills that were longer than those of the Least Sandpipers, but maybe not as long as those of the Westerns. Both birds had the plumage generally a rich buff in coloration, with the head and neck buffy with fine streaking and at most a weak supercilium. Both birds also had whitish throats and bellies separated by a buffy breast that was finely streaked yet more poorly defined than that of a Pectoral Sandpiper. Both bird were also intricately scaled above, with the blackish-centered back, scapular, and covert feathers having narrow yet well-defined edges of buff and in some cases the tips of the same color, but in others white tips. Extending beyond the longest tertials, the exposed primary tips were black. Both birds also had the bill, legs, and whatever I could see of the feet black, and eyes that were dark, but f a color that I was unable to discern.
Additional species
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 2727 pixels x 1726 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.95 MB