ML363272941
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Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Observation details
*Rare. A near adult bird seen sitting on a dirt road, before flying away. We saw it briefly perched on a low tree, where we noticed clear black spots on back and wing coverts plus black markings on neck and breast. At flight, warm brown, lighter (almost buffy) in underparts, longish, evidently rounded tail with black terminal band skipping the central rectrices and buffy tips to the tail (but also saw white tips to lateral rectrices when fanning the tail, gray wings with blackish tip of primaries. Barely photographed flying and perched. In photos, notice slender shape, rounded tail (proportionally shorter than that of Mourning Dove), black line behind eye (not only under the eye), grayish (or lavender) axillaries and clear black spots on coverts and black scalloping in breast. The most similar species is Mourning Dove, which is not expected in the area, has proportionally longer, pointed tail (even at this age) with different pattern. Separated from female Blue Ground-Dove by shape and lack of contrasting rufous rump/tail. From White-tipped Dove by shape, flight style and different coverts, tail and underwing patterns.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7200
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1267 pixels x 845 pixels
- Original file size
- 302.42 KB