Contributor
Loren Wright Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Crespi Knoll (ORA Co.)
Orange, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Observation details
White-rumped individual. Flew up the starboard side and across the bow. Not visible for long, but the large white rump with a faint dark streak in the middle was eye-catching. Spotted this bird naked eye at 50-100 yards due to the bright white rump. Direct bounding transiting flight was typical of Townsend's and different than more erratic Leach's Storm-Petrel. Other points favoring Townsend's include dark sooty plumage with pale buffy carpal bars extending out to the leading edge of the wing, short tail offset by the large white rump, and bluntly pointed wings. Overall, this bird was smaller, shorter tailed, and shorter winged than expected for Leach's.
Technical information
- Model
- ILCE-6600
- Lens
- FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
- ISO
- 1000
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/3200 sec
- Dimensions
- 1592 pixels x 1061 pixels
- Original file size
- 621.88 KB