ML30372881

Age and sex

Adult Male - X

Observation details

Continuing bird. About 1/3 the size of nearby Mourning Doves with short, squared-off tail. Rufous in outer wings when flying but we saw only quick bursts of flight so unable to gauge extent. Plain warm brown back becoming slightly grayer on rump and tail. Gray nape and rear crown with pinkish-brown face and forecrown. Scaling on crown not obvious. Dark rectangular spots (with odd little comma shape on corners on most) on wing coverts and tertials. Most of these glossed purple-cinnamon when the angle of the sun was correct. One spot the posterior tertials was all dark brown without any gloss that I could see. No dark marks on scapulars. Bill was short and reddish-based, though this was not obvious from even a short distance away. Underparts were mostly a pinkish-brown/gray. The "scaling" on the breast was odd in that many of the central breast feathers were dusky with broad lighter edges (rather than the opposite) so, in effect, it appeared to have dark spotting on the breast rather than dark scaling. Thus appearing more like illustrations in Howell and Webb than any of the other guides I have that are focused more on birds north of the Mexican border.

Technical information

Model

iPhone 5c

Lens

iPhone 5c back camera 4.12mm f/2.4

ISO

50

Focal length

4.1 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/2.4

Shutter speed

1/589 sec

Dimensions

595 pixels x 379 pixels

Original file size

160.95 KB