ML56385061
Contributor
Carl Lundblad Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Bear River MBR--Auto Tour Loop
Box Elder, Utah, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Pluvialis plovers, more slender than Black-bellied with relatively smaller heads, thinner necks, and slender bills. Wings extending well beyond tail tip and lots of primary extending beyond tertial tips, but I couldn't count how many. Bold supercillia setting off contrasting dark caps. "Contrasty" gold and dark speckled upper parts. Delayed pre-alternate molt also consistent with this species; Pacific Golden-plover (which I'm not sure we really need to consider) undergo pre-alternate molt early in spring, usually/often prior to migration. Black-bellied Plovers typically molt earlier in the spring, and the several hundred I saw this same morning at AIC were all in alternate plumage.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX20 IS
- ISO
- 80
- Focal length
- 5 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 1560 pixels x 1169 pixels
- Original file size
- 416.07 KB