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09-JUN-2006 Gary Martin

Guillemot

Skomer Island

Uria aalge
AKA: Common guillemot, Common murre (N America),
The UK’s coasts have many stretches of sheer cliffs where seabirds breed and the guillemot is one of the most numerous birds in the great ‘seabird cities’. It comes to land only to nest, spending the rest of its life at sea, where it is vulnerable to oil spills. Dark brown and white, not as black as the similar razorbill, it has a 'bridled' form with a white ring round the eye and stripe behind it.
(Info from rspb.org.uk)

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
1/500s f/8.0 at 400.0mm iso200 full exif

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Pat Blanchard 30-Mar-2013 10:32
Small brown bird like a dunnock but smaller very sharp beak lovely song. Can't find one in books