ML647794878
Contributor
Konshau Duman Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Williams Property
Santa Cruz, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
I never heard the flight calls of this male.
Observation details
They were feeding on olives in the olive tree. I got a few recordings of various parts of the whole flock of 6, and I thoroughly photographed and recorded two female types that kept coming back to the olive after most had left. Those two and at least one or two of the others sounded like eastern flight calls to me, but close looks showed that both of them were clearly western plumage-wise. One was much greener than the other, but both showed blurrier and less contrasty streaking and face patterning as well as heavily dark-marked undertail coverts. Two males I saw looked western too. At least two birds in the flock gave normal western type flight calls.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3400
- ISO
- 1000
- Focal length
- 190 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 745 pixels x 495 pixels
- Original file size
- 82.89 KB