Contributor
Bob Nieman Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Mall Parking Lot
Eddy, New Mexico, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
First Cycle gull. Larger than Ring-billed Gulls. Pink legs, fairly long. Eye dark. Bill is not massive and not really long. Mostly dark with light base of lower mandible. Head fairly rounded, mostly pale brown without obvious streaking. Chest and belly uniformly pale brown. Upper parts uniformly checkered brown and white. Primaries darker brown than rest of the bird with broad white edging. Tertials dark centered with pale tips. Possibility of hybrid Glaucous-winged X Herring suggested, but bird retains juvenile scapulars as expected in a Thayer's and the bill is not as massive as seen in the hybrid. Removed Flickr links with actual photos 8/11/17
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
- ISO
- 80
- Focal length
- 215 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/160 sec
- Dimensions
- 2816 pixels x 1880 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.42 MB