Blue-headed Vireo - Nancy Hetrick
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Location

Chaparral Park
Lea, New Mexico, United States
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Map
Map Coordinates: 32.9392606, -103.3375199
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Slate-blue head with bright white spectacles. Also highly and sharply contrasting white cheeks and throat. Underparts all white except for bright yellow-green sides and darker blotchy greenish smudges. Olive-green back (oddly with some blue coming through in a few patches. Darker green (bordering on black) wings with bright white wingbars. White edges to tertials and yellow edges to secondaries. Tail darker green, bordering on very dark gray with strongly contrasting white edges completely surrounding retrices (at least those that we could see).

Technical information

Model
NIKON D300
ISO
640
Focal length
300 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/5.0
Shutter speed
1/1000 sec
Dimensions
1043 pixels x 655 pixels
Original file size
390.52 KB