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Local
- Idade
- Não especificado
- Sexo
- Não especificado
Comentários
Duplicate photo, just brightened a bit.
Detalhes da observação
****Very rare--found by homeowner Ellen Blanchard two days ago under her feeders. Ian Carlsen and Ellen were sitting in the backyard when I arrived, and after a few minutes the bird showed up. Obvious zonotrichia, appeared slightly larger/bulkier than WTSP and noticeably duskier/grayer underneath. Showed wide, black lateral crown stripes flecked with gray, and a wide median crown stripe with a sometimes-obvious bright yellow patch on the forehead, fading to gray on the posterior of the crown. The median crown patch/stripe did not meet the base of the upper mandible, as it was cut off by the black lateral crown stripes joining together on the forehead. Auriculars gray with black edging, throat pale gray bordered by faint dark lateral throat stripes. Breast light gray, flanks and sides a dirty brown, and the undertail coverts appeared to have dark spots. The upper mandible was dark gray/blackish, and the lower was dull pinkish. The eye was bordered by a thin, broken white eyering, most prominent under the eye. The back and wings were very similar to a WTSP, with the mantle brown and streaked with black, transitioning rather abruptly to a solid brown lower back, rump, and uppertail coverts. The primaries and secondaries appeared dark, edged with buff, and the tertials were black with rufous edges fading to whitish near the tips (the black center came to a small point to reach the end of the shaft, creating a break in the edge color). The greater coverts were black-centered, edged with rufous and fading to white at the tips, and the white tips became especially bright in the outer greater coverts, forming a white wingbar. The rectrices appeared dark brown or gray, The legs were pink, with gray around the joints and toe pads. This bird was twice observed chasing off a WTSP, including on-ground combat and a midair tussle. The GCSP always won. It usually stayed around the weedy edges and around the bases of trees, but hopped up onto a corner of a dock in the neighbor's yard once (apparently a favorite perch). It made three appearances during my stay, each only lasting a couple minutes at most, and seemed to return about every 1/2 hour.
Informação técnica
- Modelo
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 450
- Distância focal
- 357 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Velocidade do obturador
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensões
- 4608 pixels x 2807 pixels
- Tamanho original do arquivo
- 2.05 MB