ML51263881
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Observation details
First-year (SY) male found by Normand Bonneau on 17 Jun (photos here on Rob Speirs's Flickr site). We located the bird in one of the broad, shallower pannes west of the isolated duck blind. It was foraging there alone, often wading into water that covered its tibio-tarsal joint, but usually staying in shallower areas. The bird flew four times, moving east to the large pool by the duck blind and then flying back to the first (western) pool. A tall, medium-sized shorebird with ridiculously long bubble-gum pink legs, glossy black crown, hindneck, back, and wing coverts. The forehead and entire underparts were snowy white, this white being visible at great distance. In flight, the bird would call, giving incessant 'yap, yap, yap' (these were softer than the harsher alarm yaps I know this species can make to an annoying extent). There was a white blob behind the eye, like a partial supercillium. In flight, we could see a small triangle of white on the underwing, and a brownish tone to the outer wing (primaries). The tail, or at least the central rectrices, was grayish with dusky. The back was white, forming a white line or narrow 'V' up the middle of the upperparts. The bill was glossy black, medium long and with very slight upturn. At rest, we could see the irides were bright red around a large, black pupil.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 60D
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/11.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1125 pixels x 750 pixels
- Original file size
- 117.39 KB