Yellow-crowned Night Heron - Tom Schulenberg
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Location

Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
Orange, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 33.7026531, -118.050735
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

from the east side of the lagoon, looking west, we spotted four juvenile night herons in a small isolated stand of mostly bare shrubs on the northwest side of Inner Bay Trail at 33.701755, -118.052547. the distance from that vantage point was too great for us to feel confident putting names to these birds, so we walked over to the west side of lagoon, directly above the shrubs. from here we saw three birds well, at very close range, and confirmed them as YCNH. we couldn't locate the fourth bird, however; it probably also was a Yellow-crowned, but we are reporting it as a spuh, out of an abundance of caution

Technical information

Model
SM-G781V
ISO
25
Focal length
7.1 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/2.4
Shutter speed
1/445 sec
Dimensions
4032 pixels x 3024 pixels
Original file size
5.6 MB