ML618947744
Red-naped x Red-breasted Sapsucker (hybrid) Sphyrapicus nuchalis x ruber
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Localidad
- Edad y sexo
- Macho adulto - 1
Comentarios
Saw this individual copulating with the other hybrid, thus determining its sex: the fully red throat and the white stripe bordering directly on it support male appearance for the largely red-naped phenotype being expressed. The red smudge on the under-eye stripe and the deeper scarlet of the under-throat collar area (where I might expect to see black higher) are the only signs of red-breasted heritage visible from this angle, but there is some further red smudging on the back of its head visible in another shot (ML619504506).
Detalles de la observación
Hybrid male and female copulating after male crooned sweetly repeatedly to summon her; a while later the female worked on their nest hole, and climbed around the tree looking into other nest holes. She made some territorial gestures toward a white-breasted nuthatch male who was carrying food to the tree (where w.b. nuthatches were also nesting last summer) and grew agitated. Once she had become irritated by this nuthatch, she even seemed a little displeased with the downy woodpecker female working on her nest hole one tree over in the same glade, and I left to avoid any chance of increasing her upset.
Información técnica
- Model
- Canon EOS R7
- Lens
- RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 31666/39582501 sec
- Dimensions
- 2660 pixels x 1773 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.42 MB