ML69168551
Contributor
Jeffrey Offermann Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Gooseberry Neck
Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Juvenile, Unknown sex - X
Observation details
Continuing juvenile first found by Marshall Iliff. Calling consistently. Slightly larger and grayer than nearby semipalmated plovers. Dark lores, no obvious eyering. Black lores to gape. Bill all, or nearly all black, unlike SEPLs which all had obvious orange patch near the base. In flight, obviously longer winged and lankier than Semipalmated Plovers. This was not an easy or straightforward ID; when the birds were moving or feeding, the diagnostic fieldmarks were difficult to detect, and harder to rule out on the many SEPLs. The call was usually the best way to re-locate the bird when the flock shifted. Many photos, videos, and sound recordings obtained.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/22.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/200 sec
- Dimensions
- 7200 pixels x 4800 pixels
- Original file size
- 10.78 MB