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28-FEB-2007 Tom Grey

White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's

back yard, Stanford campus

This is the Gambel's subspecies, which winters in the inland California, much less common than Puget Sound in the San Francisco Bay Area; this one has the orange-pink rather than the yellow bill, and back feathers with rufous centers and gray edges, rather than the blackish centers and tan/buff edges of the Puget Sound. See http://www.pbase.com/image/75046385 for a more expected yellow-billed Puget Sound bird in the same spot two days earlier.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS USM
1/80s f/5.0 at 500.0mm iso800 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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