walrus21: Is this a penguin I see before me..........?

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.; 3 September 2008 at 17:47
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.; 3 September 2008 at 21:27
walrus21 said...: We feel fairly confident about ID.
Need to find new bird book; maybe a Collins field guide.; 3 September 2008 at 21:30

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