ML486912821
Contributor
Lynn Barber Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Adak Island
Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Dark morph buteo with relatively long wings. Dark wrist patches on the under wing contrasted with paler flight feathers, and slightly less dark under wing coverts. In some angles/light the under wing coverts appeared slightly warm in tone. White bases to the primaries made a pale patch on the upper wing. Tails was heavily barred, appearing nearly completely dark in some angles. A dark sub-terminal band could be seen from above. The head was slightly paler than the body. We picked up the bird hunting along the airport runway and watched it at close range before it was chased off by a Gyrfalcon. A few in our group got photos.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 2637 pixels x 1954 pixels
- Original file size
- 431.73 KB