ML382246181
Greater/Lesser Scaup Aythya marila/affinis
Contributor
Gary Chapin Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Cumberland Bay SP
Clinton, New York, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
A large raft comprised of mostly GRSC with a few LESC mixed in. The raft was distant making it difficult to accurately assess the ratio of Greater to Lesser. I took a couple of "panoramic" photos of the raft starting on the right side and then moving left which I have attached. There were more birds strung out further to the left, perhaps another 100 individuals or so not captured in these two photos. I then attempted to count by tens the number of individuals in these two photos and came up with 1030. Add in the roughly 100 individuals not in these two photos and the birds that were underwater makes me reasonably confident in the accuracy of the reported tally.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/4000 sec
- Dimensions
- 5069 pixels x 2883 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.55 MB