ML54357431
Contributor
Oscar Johnson Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Kawai'ele State Waterbird Sanctuary
Kauai, Hawaii, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Observation details
Full alternate plumage adult. Seen standing on a sand bank for about ten minutes before taking off and flying east. Medium sized tern seeming smaller because of the ridiculously short deep red legs. Black cap extending nearly to the bill, overall pale gray with white "whisker" contrasting with the gray of the throat/cheek and the black cap. Bill small-ish (seemed a little big for most Arctic Terns) and deep red with a slight dusky tip. Wingtips gray, only slightly darker than body, with some dark apparent on p10. No limits apparent in the wings. Tail streamers long (most apparent in flight) with thin dark line on outer retrix. Wings pale above in flight with thin narrow dusky trailing edge to primaries. No other dark apparent on wings.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P7000
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 6 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 5/1072 sec
- Dimensions
- 1024 pixels x 768 pixels
- Original file size
- 142.73 KB