ML63338981
Beitragende/r
Tom Johnson Medien dieser/s Beitragenden
Datum
Ort
Cayuga Co.--90 (Lake Rd to Ledyard Rd)
Cayuga, New York, United States
Medien von diesem Ort Illustrierte Checkliste- Alter
- nicht spezifiziert
- Geschlecht
- nicht spezifiziert
Beobachtungsdetails
***MEGA subspecies - probably a first NY record; this very dark Merlin was perched atop a utility pole south of Aurora. I saw it naked eye as we were driving past, and did a quick u-turn because it appeared to be all dark. I took some photos of the bird as it perched and then flew; these revealed the general lack of pale spotting/ barring on the remiges, which are very important to the subspecific identification: http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v089n02/p0325-p0338.pdf). Most Taiga Merlins show extensive pale barring throughout the remiges, a feature notably lacking on this bird. The dark "helmet" and underparts were also very dark, much moreso than typical Taiga birds.
Technische Angaben
- Modell
- Canon EOS 40D
- Objektiv
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 640
- Brennweite
- 400 mm
- Blitz
- Flash did not fire, auto
- Blende
- f/7.1
- Belichtungszeit
- 1/1600 sec
- Abmessungen
- 1497 pixels x 1000 pixels
- Größe der Originaldatei
- 521.06 KB