ML496504781
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- Age
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- Sex
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Observation details
One Tropical Kingbird at North Point Higgins school - possibly (probably?) a different bird than the Tropical Kingbird observed in Ketchikan near the high school during the first week of October - if so, the 7th Ketchikan record. First heard the trilling call note in the trees behind the field northwest of the school. Heard it calling for a couple minutes but we were unable to see it. Eventually we tracked it down at the entrance to the school on North Point Higgins Road. In addition to trilled call, identified by large size (nearly robin size), underparts bright yellow from undertail coverts to chest, whitish throat, pale gray head with contrasting darker gray through the eye, long and large (thick and wide) all black bill, olive upperparts and wings - wings with whitish edges to tertials, secondaries, and coverts, and dark tail with very slight fork or notch (lacked white sides).
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 300.0 mm f/4.0
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 2249 pixels x 1498 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.39 MB