ML645350522
Contributor
Nicholas Minnich Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Green Island, Kure Atoll (restricted access)
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Large duck— distinctive male with iridescent green head and familiar yellow bill. Grayish body, observed on runway being mobbed by Brown Noddy. Good record for NWHI & Kure. Sorry for the Where's Waldo photo, it's next to the buoy. Nick Note: Only brought binoculars out to runway unfortunately so I have an iPhone photo that’s diagnostic, don’t judge quality please. The swooping terns were treating this poor thing like it was a sea eagle lol. I couldn’t see it at first so here I was thinking it was going to be a pueo or perry— come to find it was a Mallard. Flushed by the terns toward Monument and did not relocate yet. Would like to get better photos, as I think this is the only Mallard photo I’ll have on eBird now.
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 16 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 16 Pro Max back triple camera 15.66mm f/2.8
- ISO
- 64
- Focal length
- 15.7 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/644 sec
- Dimensions
- 4032 pixels x 3024 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.44 MB