ML33204771

Idade

Não especificado

Sexo

Não especificado

Detalhes da observação

Continuing bird. Thanks to Bill Rowe for finding and reporting this bird. We found him flying around Teal Pond late in the afternoon for quite a bit until he took a rest across from it out in Ellis Bay, where we took some photos. (I'll add a video we digiscoped in a sec, too.) Bill Rowe's description of the bird is perfect so I'll repeat it here and add a little note afterward. Bill's description is thus: "juvenile gull smaller than the surrounding Ring-billed Gulls; upperparts were overall brown, extending onto the breast and flanks; the breast and belly were lighter; dark legs and bill; forehead light to the base of the bill; broken oribital ring (crescents); back and wing covert feathers had wide pale margins, creating a strong scaled look; white tail with thick dark edge at the tip; dark wing tips and dark edges to secondaries;" I would also add that how you know this first year bird is not a first year Franklin's Gull because a first year Franklin's Gull would have a smaller and straighter bill not the long drooping one you see on this Laughing Gull, a Franklin's would have a more extensive cleaner blackish half-hood whereas you can barely make out even a hint of a hood on this first year Laughing Gull, a Franklin's would also have a more whitish neck, an incomplete tail band, a more whitish breast and paler underside to the primaries. This Laughing Gull obviously has a more gray-brown hindneck and breast as well as mottled darkish underwings. Here's a short video we made of him today:

Informação técnica

Modelo

NIKON D5300

ISO

400

Distancia focal

420 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Velocidade do obturador

1/1250 sec

Dimensões

2389 pixels x 1651 pixels

Tamanho do ficheiro original

1.15 MB