ML521200161

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Behaviors

Flying

Observation details

Holy cow! Photos! Shearwater seen jetting in from the south with classic flight consisting of several powerful, emphatic flaps followed by a lengthy glide level with the water. Medium to large sized for a Shearwater, with a rather bulky body. Entirely dark besides obvious silvery toned underwings. Only other possibility would be Short-tailed Shearwater which A. has never been seen in the gulf during winter months per eBird and B. does not get considered by the TBRC when analyzing Sooty/Short-tailed typed. Per Texas bird records committee review list “Sight or photo records of Sooty or Short-tailed Shearwaters are difficult to positively identify. The TBRC has voted to label all such records as Sooty Shearwater and acknowledges that Short-tailed Shearwaters are a remote possibility, based on one Gulf of Mexico record and one from the south Atlantic as of 2012.”

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7200

Lens

200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6

ISO

400

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/2500 sec

Dimensions

1365 pixels x 910 pixels

Original file size

704.96 KB