ML509778361
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Relatively-large oriole with heavy partially-pale bill, yellow-orange head and tail, brightly and relatively uniformly orange-colored on entire head including neck, cheeks, auriculars, crown, throat and the upper-most breast. Very slight dark eyeline and a bit of duskiness in the lores but no discernable sueprcillium. Low contrast in the auriculars (i.e., seemingly "blended" on the face). Greenish-tinted gray mantle with only very faint smudgy streaking, gray wings with white wing bars. Pale-edged greater coverts, lending a bit of blending and indistinctness to wingbars, and apparent toothy serrations on upper edge of upper bar, I think. Not sure about rup color. Silent. Seen on Front Street between Commercial and Jewett. Flew over Front Street from west to east and then into the backyard of a house on the east side of the street. EDIT/comment to reviewer: I briefly changed this to "Bullock's/Baltimore" on the suggestion of a very-experienced eastern birder who questiontioned whether it could be a Baltimore, but that person seems to have come around to Bullock's, and additional feedback solicited on the "Advanced Bird ID" group in Facebooks all seems to be in favor of Bullock's. Additional pointes noted include the white-ish undertail coverts, "indistinct centers to the scaps and mantle feathers", and "dusky smudging concentrated in the crown and not bleeding heavily into the auriculars". Hence, reverting this entry to the original taxon.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P950
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 357 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/160 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.89 MB