ML360931711
bird sp. Aves sp.
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- Věk
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- Pohlaví
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*unusual; right on arrival I scanned the horizon, predawn, and encountered a weird bird flying through the gulls a mile or two offshore. It was a mid-sized bird with a streamlined body and long fairly thin wings, roughly similar in size to the gulls, and with distinctive-seeming 'pumping' wingbeats that never raised wings above the vertical: just horizontal to sides, pumped down to almost meet below the bird. The best match I have for this 'pumping' flightstyle is Northern Lapwing—which this bird obviously wasn't. In lieu of NOLA, it felt most like some nightjar/mid-sized heron/owl. The bird didn't appear to have any long trailing legs or much of anything behind the wings, which seems to suggest not a heron. Given the size and behavior, my current thought is that Long-eared Owl might fit the best? I've never seen them in sustained flight over water, so not sure how their flight style would change, but it feels like this could develop from their hunting flights.
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