[Tweeters] What is this bird?
Larry Schwitters
leschwitters at me.com
Wed Aug 2 08:35:25 PDT 2023
The Pigeon Guillemot coloration is different in the winter and breeding adults.
Winter white.
Breeding adult brown.
Nat Geo "Birds of North Americaā€¯ 7th edition. Page 170.
when in breeding plumage, are dark brown with a black iridescent sheen and a distinctive wing patch broken by a brown-black wedge.Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_guillemot>
Larry Schwitters
Issaquah
> On Aug 2, 2023, at 8:22 AM, jimbetz at jimbetz.com wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Everyone says "Pigeon Guillemot" ... I'm not disputing that ... but no
> one has explained the color ... the bird I saw was definitely in that
> light reddish-brown. I agree with all of the shape identifiers making it
> a pigeon guillemot. But ...
> I have gone back and played with the image using Elements and no matter
> what I do with the saturation and/or the brightness settings the best I
> can get it to is a light gray.
> Yet every ID info image I can find shows the pigeon guillemot to be
> dark gray or even black. ???
>
> One person said to notice the Pelagic Cormorants in the pilings of the
> Anacortes Ferry terminal. I did see cormorants ... but my ID has them as
> Double-crested. They were on the pilings right by the ferry and also on
> the pilings of the old cannery at Ship Harbor. Note the color of the
> bill area in this picture ...
>
> https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-Zsx37pc/A
>
> ... however, I'm 'conflicted' about the ID because I did not detect the
> crest in any of them (at either location). I did consider the
> Pelagic ... but the bill area color got me to say "Double".
>
> Your thoughts on either of these questions are appreciated.
>
> - Jim
>
> Quoting jimbetz at jimbetz.com:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was this bird at the ferry slip at Friday Harbor on Sunday, the 30th.
>> I've spent almost 2 hours searching for an ID and can't come up with it.
>> Any assistance appreciated!
>> Yes, the colors in this pic are correct/very close.
>>
>> https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-57cqKhd/A
>>
>> - Jim
>
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