ML623806308
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Northbound at 8:59 AM, very close off the pier (<50m). Tight flock of Sternas. At least one adult with blood-reddish bill, dark cap. Dark facial patches of varying shapes and extents on immatures, but most reaching nape; I think at least one had orangey lower mandibles as well. Better-photographed birds also showed dark lateral edges to outermost retrices. While not all birds were photographed well and thus identified critically, I did not notice any outliers in the field (though noticing an ARTE or FOTE among them would not have been an easy task), and the tendency for COTE to travel in these usually exclusively conspecific flocks near shore leads me to enter them all as such. Still, I will readily update the report and move some to slash if requested to do so. Photos to add.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P1000
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 359 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 2272 pixels x 1704 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.74 MB