ML59564941
Contributor
B Griffin Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Caribbean Sea Cruising
Montserrat, Montserrat
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Masked Booby, immature from above, Caribbean Sea near Montserrat. Photo zoomed in, cropped and color enhanced.
Observation details
First sighting for life list. Seen gliding and fishing along side of our cruise ship. Mostly white ocean bird with brown on the trailing edge of wings and wing tips, brown at end of tail, black at base of yellow bill and around the eyes, also had some brown speckling on rump, back and leading edge of wing which is characteristic of an immature bird. Dark colored feet. Watched as it dove, head-on into the ocean chasing after fish.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 70.5 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1126 pixels x 1204 pixels
- Original file size
- 238.1 KB