Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - X
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
Adult alternate plumage Long-billed Dowitcher showing mostly white marginal underwing coverts. These feathers are more heavily marked and barred on Short-billed Dowitcher.
Observation details
This bird was feeding in the rain pools along one of the dirt roads. Its bright underparts caught my attention from a great distance. Bright, clean, rusty orange throughout underparts contrasting with heavily marked breast-sides. The upper parts were overall blackish with only narrow white and rust barring. The rear flanks were strongly barred, and, most importantly, the sides of the breast were densely marked with scallop-shaped black bars. The central anterior throat had fine dark spots. The bill was roughly the length of a Short-billed Dowitcher (male LB overlaps with both male and female SB in bill length). The tail feathers were rather narrowly barred with whitish and pale rust-tinged bars and broad dark bars. The bird gave 'keek' alarm calls when flushed. A hendersoni Short-billed Dowitcher differs in having plainer underparts with only sparse spotting at the breast-sides (not bar-shaped markings); that race also has fewer spots on the foreneck and is the brightest dowitcher dorsally, showing broad pale rust and white bars, almost like tiger-striping on the back and scapulars unlike this Long-billed.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF300mm f/2.8L IS II USM +1.4x III
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 420 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2562 pixels x 1708 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.52 MB