ML619627355
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- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Observation details
Really cool surprise! Large wader, smaller than expected for Long-billed Curlew. Brownish overall, darker above than below, lacking the cinnamon or buffy tones expected for Long-billed Curlew. Bill shorter than a Curlew and mostly straight for 2/3 it's length before drooping sharply at the tip (rather than the gradual droop more typical of Long-billed Curlew). Dark crown with contrasting pale supercilium (as opposed to the more buffy concolor face of a Long-billed Curlew). Somewhat squat, dark legs. Timing somewhat more consistent with Whimbrel (which tend to be later migrants). Long-billed Curlew should largely still be breeding further north in the Great Plains. Potentially a first Val Verde County record. I have some distant digiscope photos.
Technical information
- Model
- motorola edge 5G UW (2021)
- ISO
- 179
- Focal length
- 5.9 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/1.9
- Shutter speed
- 8333333/1000000000 sec
- Dimensions
- 941 pixels x 666 pixels
- Original file size
- 125.35 KB