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Contributor
Gjon Hazard Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
San Diego, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
iPhone photo.
Observation details
Perhaps an Am. Coot X Common Gallinule hybrid, a "Galoot." It had a large, bulbous, red shield (callus); bright yellow basal 2/3rds of upper mandible; tip of bill white with partial dark ring. Body pattern most like coot, with nothing else suggesting gallinule influence. Eye red; toes lobed. The amount of yellow seemed to be far outside expected variation in coot bill coloration (the photos don't quite do it justice). I don't think it was an exotic zoo inmate. There may have been a second, a bird with a deformed bill but with same bill coloration.
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 6 Plus
- Lens
- iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2
- ISO
- 40
- Focal length
- 4.2 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.2
- Shutter speed
- 1/30 sec
- Dimensions
- 1470 pixels x 1103 pixels
- Original file size
- 432.44 KB