ML479253981

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - 1

Behaviors

Foraging or eating

Media notes

probably female by bill length;

Observation details

adult in worn alternate; in the field, took it to be a hendersoni Short-billed (buffy-rufous breast and belly; white lower belly and vent; fairly sparse dark markings on the breast; seemingly evenly spaced barring along sides of breast and flanks); but my far from great photos seemed a much better fit for Long-billed: dark bars (not round spots) on the sides of the upper breast; relatively dark upperparts with white rather than buff edgings; bill appeared rather long for any Short-billed; My photos are consistent with those of the bird present since 19 Aug that had been considered a Long-billed by a few people but entered on most eBird lists as Short-billed (usually without comments). So I sent my photos and a selection of much better ones to Jonathan Alderfer and Jon Dunn for their opinions. Both find the bird to be a LBDo in worn alternate plumage. Jon mentioned additional aspects supporting that ID: worn alternate SBDo is not likely to be as deeply colored in the vent/undertail region or breast; from what can be seen of the tail, it appears very dark with thin white bars whereas hendersoni SBDo have the palest tail of any Limnodromus taxon.

Technical information

Model

DMC-FZ200

ISO

100

Focal length

108 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/4.0

Shutter speed

1/320 sec

Dimensions

2100 pixels x 1500 pixels

Original file size

1.86 MB