First-ever Black-throated Loon recorded in Okinawa Prefecture!!
A Black-throated Loon has arrived — a first record for Okinawa Prefecture!! It was distant, so I pulled out the 2× teleconverter and shot at 1200mm. Even at that range the white on the breast was conspicuous.
Adult Black-throated Loon. Perhaps it rode the fierce northerly winds that had been blowing for several days all the way down to Ishigaki Island in the south.
Pacific Loon has been recorded in the prefecture, but I never expected a Black-throated Loon to turn up!!
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