ML287872441
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
Observation details
*Fairly rare, especially to have two here by mid-December. This is almost certainly a different bird than the one that was seen here from 11/5-11/15. The biggest difference between today's bird and that one is the extensive black mottling on the belly that does not extend upward in two obvious bars (see https://ebird.org/pa/checklist/S76016723 and https://ebird.org/checklist/S75874061). The amount of black in the middle of this bird's belly was shocking when the bird rose and stretched. The November bird also showed a thin eye-ring at times, which this bird never showed. In my opinion, this bird shows a smaller-looking bill and a thinner horizontal flank stripe than the November bird as well. I don't know what this means in terms of subspecies, as I've read several detailed articles now and still can't decide how to treat these two geese.
Additional species
Technical information
- Model
- Pixel
- ISO
- 266
- Focal length
- 4.7 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/2.0
- Shutter speed
- 8339/1000000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3036 pixels x 4048 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.82 MB