ML612683800

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Yellow-bellied kingbird with a long bill; whitish throat, yellowish breast washed with olive; long, forked brown tail; and greenish back. The tail lacked obvious pale sides or tips and showed relatively low contrast with the uppersides. Wing coverts dark gray, broadly edged and tipped in with pale gray, giving the wing panel a scalloped look. The tertials, secondaries were blackish, sharply edged with narrow white sides. The bill was relatively long with a straight culmen and distinct hook. Silent. Western Kingbird is the other most likely. It is eliminated by the brownish tail with low contrast relative to greenish back; also by large bill and yellow/olive breast. Cassin's (which is closer) eliminated by bill shape and lack of contrasting whitish malar, darker breast. Couch's difficult to eliminate, but bill shape seemed classic for Tropical, the expected rare species here. First seen distantly (200m) from southern corner of the lagoon (near the gate at the terminus of Chestnut st). I thought yellow-bellied kingbird, probably Tropical but wasn’t sure due to distance. When I first saw it, the bird was perched about here (36.9640607, -122.0264091) on telephone wire on the hill on the far side of the skate park. I walked over there and got closer looks. It then flew down by skate park and then north along Center at. Last seen around here (36.9662127, -122.0266529). I've loaded photos. They are unedited other than cropping and adjusting the exposure (roughly +1).

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS R6

Lens

RF600mm F11 IS STM

ISO

4000

Focal length

600 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/11.0

Shutter speed

1/1250 sec

Dimensions

2048 pixels x 1363 pixels

Original file size

625.39 KB