ML88264411
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Media notes
Photographed during WHSRN surveys. 1st record for Venezuela.
Observation details
Photos. 1st seen 0730. With flock of 43 Calidris alba and 3 C. pusilla, but feeding in weed at high-tide mark, 1–2 m higher up beach. Distinctly larger than superficially similar C. nivosus (which would be only other pale ash-grey Charadrius), with erect rather than horizontal stance, assumed after short runs of just a few paces. Head round, not flattened, though forehead steep as in C. nivosus. Bright orange legs. Bill black with tiny orange base (only visible at short range and in photos). Ear coverts pale grey, large white forehead, broad white supercilium > plain face, against which large black "button eye" stands out in "innocent expression". Dark grey to sooty lateral breast. No black in rest of plumage. Observed by 4 ornithologists with 10x binoculars for 40 minutes from 10 m. 1st country record for Venezuela. My voucher images from a bridge camera attached; Jhonathan Miranda took much better photographs from closer range with an SLR. [These notes taken on Android eBird app at the time. Apparent 2nd documented record for mainland South America]. Now published: URL: https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a7.
Technical information
- Model
- DMC-FZ200
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 108 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1075 pixels x 806 pixels
- Original file size
- 300.71 KB