ML616083328

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Juvenile Chrysolophus pheasant crosses the road at intersection of Pukiawe Circle x Pain Loop in the Volcano Golf Course subdivision on a rainy afternoon. Small bill, lumpy head shape, heavily barred, and thin drooping tail. Grainy iPhone photos show nonetheless clearly this to be a different bird from the one I reported on Feb 28 at Kolokea Place, Volcano Golf Course subdivision. That bird had a broken tail and some reddish tones around the eye, and may have been a bit larger. Further, its tertrials, secondaries, and wing-coverts were all adult plumage, heavily marked with black, rectangular markings, whereas today's bird shows some of these same feathers growing in amongst what must be plainer juvenal plumage. The leg color of the two birds also differs: yellowish in the first bird, gray in the second. Debatable which species it is, Golden vs. Lady Amherst vs. a hybrid of the two, or domestic morph of either. Overall fulvescent tone and more extensive finer barring weighs towards Golden, but I don’t have comparative photos of same-age wild birds for reference.

Technical information

Model

iPhone 8 Plus

Lens

iPhone 8 Plus back dual camera 6.6mm f/2.8

ISO

50

Focal length

6.6 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/2.8

Shutter speed

1/121 sec

Dimensions

1837 pixels x 1359 pixels

Original file size

407.83 KB