ML365303871
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
See pics. Sub-adult light morph. Medium-sized jaeger. Smaller than a Herring Gull and larger than a Laughing Gull. The tail length and shape had the pointed central tail feathers sticking out beyond other tail feathers. It had a smaller head and smaller bill in proportion to its body size versus that of a larger Pomarine Jaeger. It also had slightly lighter coloring on dark back and upper wings in comparison to same dark coloring across the upperside and wings of a POJA. The underside was white with some barring as well as on the tail and it had a dark breastband and cap. The belly was heavy but slimmer overall than POJA. The inner wings were narrow and tapered at tips with a white crescent on the base of primaries. Considering the strong hurricane band winds, it flew quickly over the harbor to the beach over a large group of roosting terns and gulls. It then made a direct flight low over the water with rapid wing beats south toward Deer Island.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 801 pixels x 534 pixels
- Original file size
- 111.71 KB