Laguntzailea
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Kokapena
- Adina eta sexua
- Heldua, sexua ezezaguna - X
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I chased this bird at the estuary and found it quite easily. It was not seen subsequently. I neglected to keep an ebird checklist though... Date recovered from the CBRC record. Accepted record 2008-056. CBRC report: Species: Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Nyctanassa violacea Location: Ventura River Mouth, Ventura County. Date: 13 April 2008 Age and sex: After hatch year, sex unknown Molt status: None apparent Number of individuals: 1 Other observers: Eric Waian, two other people I didn’t know Original observers: Robert and Allison McMorran Circumstances: I got a message from Robert in the midafternoon of the 13th, after spending all morning hiking, so I raced down to Ventura. Once I got to the Ventura River Mouth I walked out to the river from the Emma Wood State Beach campground, and started walking along the overgrown gravel bar towards the railroad bridge and the river mouth. I didn’t make it 200 feet before a mid-sized dark heron flushed from some reeds along the shore about forty feet in front of me and flew behind me in good light at about twenty foot elevation and headed out to the sand bars at the river mouth. I recognized it as the Yellow-crowned and headed back onto the trails through the willows to get out to the railroad bridge so that I would have a better view of the bird. I ran into Eric on the trails, who hadn’t seen the bird yet, so we both headed out to the bridge, where there were other two birders looking in the wrong direction. The heron was easily visible and we all got good looks through the scope (although a little distant) and I got some decent digiscoped photos. After watching the bird for about fifteen-twenty minutes, I had to leave to return to Santa Barbara. Description: A mid-sized dark gray heron, approximately the same size as a Black-crowned Night-Heron (although there were none for direct comparison). The neck and legs were rather short for a heron. In flight the grayish legs extended slightly beyond the short tail. When perched, the tail was mostly hidden by the wings, which were plain gray and slightly darker than the rest of the body. The head was black, fading into the gray of the neck. The crown was white, broad towards the bill, and becoming narrow towards the nape. Another white blaze started just bellow the eye as a narrow point, and became wider as it curved slightly up towards the nape. The bill was very stocky, with a curved culmen, and dark grey. I did not note the eye color. Discussion: A very distinctive heron. Much smaller than Great Blue, and much larger than Green, the two expected dark herons in the area. Tricolored Heron has a white belly, and Reddish Egret and Little Blue Heron are solidly dark, including on the head. Black-crowned Night-Heron is much paler, and has a black crown, among other characters.
Informazio teknikoa
- Eredua
- COOLPIX P5100
- ISOa
- 64
- Distantzia fokala
- 10.1 mm
- Flasha
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.9
- Obturadorearen abiadura
- 1/180 sec
- Dimentsioak
- 1200 pixels x 877 pixels
- Fitxategiaren tamaina originala
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