ML621205545
Contributor
Jean Iron Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
St. John's--Quidi Vidi Lake
Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Dark adult Lesser Black-backed Gull at east end of Quidi Vidi. Its very dark mantle and in flight its white mirror on only p10 suggested a Baltic Gull (nominate subspecies fuscus). Note white streaks caused by blowing snow. May not be able to rule out intermedius. Same gull Kirk Zufelt saw when we were at the dump at the dump on 14 January 2007. Kirk's analysis here: https://larusology.blogspot.com/2009/11/possible-baltic-gull-in-newfoundland.html
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SD700 IS
- Focal length
- 23.2 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/40 sec
- Dimensions
- 2495 pixels x 1655 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.09 MB