ML620357456

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Found by Barb Gritke in her backyard. Private nature of the road and fear of mass-twitching left this bird closed to public visitation, but a handful of visits were offered to local birders after an arrangement was worked out with the neighbourhood. Took me three attempts. A bizarre bird plumage-wise... should not really be in active moult, and I wondered at the time whether it had undergone stress and/or survived a predation attempt. Pure yellow underwing photographed by others, pure orange unstreaked breast, grayish-pink bill with perceptibly darker upper mandible. Missing many feathers in the belly and showing white in this area, but presence of orange in vent hints at full orange underside. The potential for a hybrid was mentioned but I'm not sure anything truly leans that way over a pure bird - i.e. the plumage is certainly atypical but not in alignment with a RBGR/BHGR hybrid, from what I can tell.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7500

Lens

200-500mm f/5.6

ISO

320

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

2515 pixels x 1674 pixels

Original file size

2.28 MB