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- Sex
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Observation details
Face, neck, nape, throat and chest warm buff, blending to creamy white belly; black spots on sides of breast distinct, more muted across center of breast; crown finely streaked black and buff; diffuse white eye ring giving blank-faced look; upper parts mostly dark, back and scapulars with pale whitish fringes, tertials and upper wing coverts with rufous outer webs and pale buff fringes, creating scaly or scalloped appearance; primaries dark but with narrow white tips; under wing coverts white; legs yellow; iris dark; bill black, slightly decurved, and about same length as head; about same size as Killdeer, but shaped more like sandpiper; primary extension long (three tips visible) but barely beyond tail; foraged by picking at surface of water. Photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/40928097@N07/4936150077/
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/11.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 627 pixels x 447 pixels
- Original file size
- 146.46 KB