ML386091681
Contributor
Barbara Swanson Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Solana Highlands Park
San Diego, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Vocalizing
Media notes
Aggressive display with another male RCKI
Observation details
One RCKI started its chittering and flashed its crown on the far side of the trail, then flew across and landed not that far in front of me. He started chittering even more, swiveling around on his branch with his crest prominently displayed, and looking down. After 12 sec of this, another male appeared with his crown displayed and they chittered at each other, then flew across the path and vigorously flew around a tree. There may have been more than 2 RCKIs at this point. I've never seen this before!
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D800E
- Lens
- 200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
- ISO
- 4000
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 2188 pixels x 1447 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.65 MB