ML617122497
Contributor
James Kennerley Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Race Rocks
Capital, British Columbia, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Observation details
Superb views of one before we even got off the boat right by the jetty! I managed excellent photos of this bird which had attained 70% breeding plumage. I picked up a further two birds on South Race Rock so were a bit distant even through the scope. One bird was more advanced (90%) with a white face and dark ear covert patch, the other bird was less advanced and looking characteristically basic (30%). Smallish size and structure ruled out Dunlin-like ptilocnemis. Alternate/breeding plumage with darker rufous edges to scapulars and fairly well-defined ear covert patch points to expected subspecies tschuktschorum but I can't rule out couesi and especially quarta with certainty.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R7
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 1250
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 2464 pixels x 1386 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.89 MB