Colaborador
Data
Localização
- Idade
- Não especificado
- Sexo
- Não especificado
Detalhes da observação
An adult-plumaged bird on Owens Lake on 26 Aug was found by Bob and Susan Steele and seen by everyone on JLD and Mike Prather ESAS field trip. LOCATION Northern Owens Lake, in a shallow flooding basin, east of the tip of the Owens River delta. OBSERVERS Found by Susan and Bob Steele; seen by the Eastern Sierra Audubon field trip, co-led by Jon L Dunn and Mike Prather. OPTICAL EQUIPMENT Leica Televid APO 77mm and Nikon Fieldscope 60mm APO scopes. Also, Bausch and Lomb Elite (Chris) and Swarovski EL (Rosie) binoculars B&L Elites 8X (Chris) Digiscoped with Nikon Coolpix 995. Also extensively photographed by Bob Steele (see his website). EXPERIENCE We saw the first Inyo County record, an adult on 2 Oct 2000. (Noah Hamm found that bird; Chris helped identify it.). Other than that, the only golden-plover we've seen is a Pacific-Golden Plover at San Jose del Cabo, Baja Sur, Mexico in August 2002. STATUS Only one prior Inyo County record, a juvenile on 2 Oct 2000. This is the one of only a few adult records in fall in the west. Generally, adult American Golden-plovers migrate east from their American arctic breeding grounds past the NE US or Nova Scotia and migrate non-stop to South America. HABITAT The muddy edge of a large shallow dust control basin, at the base of a berm. DISTANCE TO BIRDS 100-300 feet. DURATION 30 minutes total time spent looking at the bird. EASE OF OBSERVATION Good. Photo below (digiscoped by Chris Howard) show very long primary projection last the tail, mottled below with black (retaining alternate plumage), golden spangling to the entire back, bold white supercilium, bill thinner than a Black-bellied Plover.
Informação técnica
- Modelo
- E995
- ISO
- 100
- Distancia focal
- 24.8 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/4.4
- Velocidade do obturador
- 10/857 sec
- Dimensões
- 2048 pixels x 1536 pixels
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