ML620303065
cormorant sp. Phalacrocoracidae sp.
Contributor
Naresh Satyan Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Santa Fe Dam Rec. Area
Los Angeles, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Two cormorants - one dark adult, and one brownish immature - flew over. Looking at the dark bird first, I thought it was a Neotropic Cormorant from the proportions of the neck and tail (very long tail comparable to the neck extension). I took photos, and the facial pattern seems consistent with Neotropic Cormorant. If that were the only bird, I would have called it a Neotropic Cormorant. Perhaps I would've been wrong. The problem is that the younger bird with this one looked the same size or smaller, but had quite a lot of orange in the lores, and the tail didn't appear very long. I think these are both Neotropic Cormorants, but this park has a history of that large Ross's Goose being considered a hybrid...
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D5600
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2385 pixels x 1591 pixels
- Original file size
- 927.8 KB