ML43589601
Contributor
Nathan Langwald Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Sebastian Inlet SP (Indian River co.)
Indian River, Florida, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
Continuing rarity originally spotted by Avery Chan on 22 Dec 2016. Immature bird with light-colored legs, brownish hood and sides of neck and brownish-gray scaled back, extensive white chest through to belly and undertail coverts, and chevron-shaped tail exposed when preening with black edging. Black beak much smaller and more delicate-appearing than that of a somewhat similar and much more common Laughing Gull, with legs paler than a LAGU as well. Juvenile Black-legged Kittiwake ruled out as well due to legs being paler than a BLKI and lack of dark auricular spot behind eye and back much browner than a BLKI. Bird was spotted preening on the beach, just yards south of the Sebastian Inlet sea wall on the Indian River Co. side.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3200
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3000 pixels x 2100 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.13 MB