ML615450961
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Hen Chrysolophus pheasant foraging on road verge along Kolokea Place (small bill, lumpy bun "loph", barring, and thin droopy tail). An adult female judging from slight wear to contour plumage and condition of her bill and feet; first-year male would show strong reddish tinge on rump and head. After looking at photos of wild female Golden and Lady Amherst Pheasants on eBird, it seemed this bird shows features of both: for Golden, yellow legs, reddish skin around the eyes; for Lady Amherst, heavier barring, reddish feathered superciliary over the eye. It's also possible she's some domestic morph of Golden. But William Beebe in his classic monograph states that females of the two species are indistinguishable from each other except for the pale blue skin around the eye in the Lady Amherst, which this bird lacks. Female Goldens can have rufous tinge to the sides of the crown. So I'm calling it a Golden now. Appeared to be alone—no other pheasants near. Feeding actively, plucking minuscule pieces of grass or weeds from mowed road verge. Accustomed to people and allows my close approach, although it retreated to the nearby olive thicket to avoid a passing car, only to re-emerge a few minutes later. First time I’ve seen this individual bird. P.S. (April 8): Seen only this once, not again though we drive this road daily.
Technical information
- Model
- ILCE-6500
- Lens
- E 70-350mm F4.5-6.3 G OSS
- ISO
- 2500
- Focal length
- 211 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/10.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/400 sec
- Dimensions
- 5457 pixels x 3638 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.74 MB