Monday 1 September 2008

Is this a penguin I see before me..........?

Here`s one for the ornithologists among you.
Not one of our locals,  so just passing through;  
 I last saw one like this about five years ago.  I reckon it is a youthful guillemot  -  what do you think?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wikipedia is your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemot

As well as Google images:

http://images.google.com/images?q=guillemot&ie=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

I'd say thats a madam guillemot.

walrus21 said...

We found something called 'birdsID" we and feel confident about our theory. Must acquire a proper new bird book, but haven`t found the Amazon site particularly helpful.

walrus21 said...

We feel fairly confident about ID.
Need to find new bird book; maybe a Collins field guide.