ML266651051
Tricolored Heron x Snowy Egret (hybrid) Egretta tricolor x thula
Contributor
Sara M. Diaz Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Anastasia SP
St. Johns, Florida, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
Media notes
the colors look like a combitation of tricolored + snowy
Observation details
The bird is the size of a Tricolored, the eyes coordinations are yellow like snowy, the crested is white like snowy but have those long feathers like tricolored, the facial skin around the eyes is a combination of the tricolored Heron and Snowy in breeding colors , the bill is black, legal are black with some color at the ends... he was doing a mating dance like tricolored also he was trying to kill some little blue, snowy, and tricolored chicks. that's why I don't know if ibis tricolored + little blue or snowy great.
Additional species
- Tricolored Heron x Snowy Egret (hybrid) Egretta tricolor x thula
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7100
- Lens
- 200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 290 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/200 sec
- Dimensions
- 864 pixels x 1080 pixels
- Original file size
- 499.8 KB