ML486903691

Edad

No especificado

Sexo

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Detalles de la observación

Spectacular close, confiding bird that worked our chum slick and the birds in it. The blackish under wing coverts contrasted sharply with a bold white patch that extended from the primaries inward across most of the secondaries. The body was a smooth gray-brown, some paler tawny streaks highlighted the nape and hindneck, but this was otherwise a rather uniform looking bird. The legs were all dark. The bill was slate to dark grayish slate and appeared comparatively slimmer and shorter than the Great Skua earlier in the day. The head and bill even appeared delicate in some angles (rounded head). The "hand" (outer primaries) looked somewhat shortened and blunted. This appearance differed from the longer wing and longer pointed hand of the Great Skua earlier. Photos show that the outer two primaries of this South Polar Skua were growing.

Información técnica

Model

NIKON D3100

Lens

55.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6

ISO

1600

Focal length

300 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/13.0

Shutter speed

1/1000 sec

Dimensions

3804 pixels x 2244 pixels

Original file size

5.68 MB