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  • Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritis - juvenile preening
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  • Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritis - juvenile preening
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  • Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritis - juvenile preening
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - male preening
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - male preening
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  • Great Egret - Ardea alba
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  • Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata L 55-65cm. Swims low in water, head and dagger-like bill tilted upwards. Dives frequently. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has blue-grey on face and sides of neck, red throat and black-and-white lines on back and lower sides of neck. Upperparts are otherwise brownish grey and underparts are whitish. In winter, grey upperparts are spangled with small white spots; underparts are white. Juvenile is similar to winter adult but grubby-looking. Voice Mostly silent. Status Scarce breeding species; nests beside freshwater pools. Outside breeding season, found in shallow coastal seas; locally common in winter.
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  • Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Californian race
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - 1st winter female
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - 1st winter female
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - 1st winter female
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Californian race
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  • Forster's Tern - Sterna forsteri - adult in transition to breeding plumage
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  • Great Egret - Ardea alba
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Pacific race
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  • Japanese Macaque Macaca fuscata Length to 50cm aka Snow Monkey. Range restricted to Japan, in areas of winter snowfall. Fur is grey-buff and face is reddish and essentially hairless.
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  • Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena L 40-45cm. Smaller and more stocky than Great Crested, with striking summer plumage. Note diagnostic yellow-based bill. White wing panels seen in flight. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has red neck and upper breast; head has white-bordered pale grey cheeks and black cap. Upperparts otherwise grey-brown and underparts whitish with grey streaks on flanks. In winter, loses neck colours but often retains hint of reddish collar. Cheek pattern is less well defined and ear coverts are grubby. Juvenile is similar to winter adult with more extensive red on neck. Voice Mostly silent. Status Scarce winter visitor to sheltered inshore seas and estuaries; occasional on inland lakes and reservoirs.
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  • Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena L 40-45cm. Smaller and more stocky than Great Crested, with striking summer plumage. Note diagnostic yellow-based bill. White wing panels seen in flight. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has red neck and upper breast; head has white-bordered pale grey cheeks and black cap. Upperparts otherwise grey-brown and underparts whitish with grey streaks on flanks. In winter, loses neck colours but often retains hint of reddish collar. Cheek pattern is less well defined and ear coverts are grubby. Juvenile is similar to winter adult with more extensive red on neck. Voice Mostly silent. Status Scarce winter visitor to sheltered inshore seas and estuaries; occasional on inland lakes and reservoirs.
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  • Bald Ibis - Geronticus eremita
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  • Puffin Fratercula arctica L 30cm. Endearing seabird. Flies on narrow wings with whirring wingbeats. Swims well and dive frequently for fish. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has mainly dark upperparts with dusky face; underparts are white. Legs are orange-red and bill is huge, flattened and marked with red, blue and yellow. In winter, similar but with dark grey face and smaller, duller bill. Juvenile is similar to winter adult but with small, dark and dull bill. Voice Utters groaning calls at nest. Status Locally common. Only comes ashore in breeding season. Colonial nester, excavating burrows in grassy cliffs. Only storm-driven, sick or oiled birds are seen near land in winter.
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  • Hooded Crow Corvus cornix has grubby grey body plumage with black wings and tail, a black head, throat and centre of the upper breast. It is found north and west of the Clyde-Dornoch line, and throughout Ireland and on the Isle of Man. All crows are wary birds that utter a harsh, slightly slurred creeaa-creeaa-creeaa call.
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - male
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - male
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - male
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula - male
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Californian race
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Pacific race
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Pacific race
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Californian race
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  • Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias - Adult breeding
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  • Mute Swan Cygnus olor L 150-160cm. Large, distinctive water bird and a familiar sight. Swimming birds hold long neck in an elegant curve. Family groups are a feature of lowland lakes in spring. Typically tolerant of people. In flight, shallow, powerful wingbeats produce and characteristic, throbbing whine. Sexes are similar but bill’s basal knob is largest in males. Adult has white plumage although crown may have orange-buff suffusion. Bill is orange-red with black base. Juvenile has grubby grey-brown plumage and dull pinkish grey bill. Voice Mostly silent. Status Our commonest swan; the only resident species. Found on freshwater habitats besides which it nests; in winter, also on sheltered coasts.
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  • Puffin Fratercula arctica L 30cm. Endearing seabird. Flies on narrow wings with whirring wingbeats. Swims well and dive frequently for fish. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has mainly dark upperparts with dusky face; underparts are white. Legs are orange-red and bill is huge, flattened and marked with red, blue and yellow. In winter, similar but with dark grey face and smaller, duller bill. Juvenile is similar to winter adult but with small, dark and dull bill. Voice Utters groaning calls at nest. Status Locally common. Only comes ashore in breeding season. Colonial nester, excavating burrows in grassy cliffs. Only storm-driven, sick or oiled birds are seen near land in winter.
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  • Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea
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  • Herring Gull Larus argentatus L 56-62cm. Noisy, familiar bird and our most numerous large gull species. Often follows boats. Bold when fed regularly. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has blue-grey black and upperwings, with white-spotted, black wingtips; plumage is otherwise white. Legs are pink, bill is yellow with orange spot, and eye is yellow with orange-yellow ring. In winter, similar but with dark streaks on head and nape. Juvenile and 1st winter are mottled grey-brown with streaked underparts. Legs are dull pink, bill is dark and spotted pale tail has dark tip. Adult plumage acquired over 3 years. 2nd winter bird is similar but has grey back and grey areas on upperwing. Tail is white with dark tip. 3rd winter resembles winter adult but has more black on wingtips and hint of dark tail band. Voice Utters distinctive kyaoo and anxious ga-ka-ka. Status Common, mainly coastal in summer, nesting on seacliffs and in seaside towns. Widespread and more numerous in winter due to migrant influx.
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  • Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena L 40-45cm. Smaller and more stocky than Great Crested, with striking summer plumage. Note diagnostic yellow-based bill. White wing panels seen in flight. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has red neck and upper breast; head has white-bordered pale grey cheeks and black cap. Upperparts otherwise grey-brown and underparts whitish with grey streaks on flanks. In winter, loses neck colours but often retains hint of reddish collar. Cheek pattern is less well defined and ear coverts are grubby. Juvenile is similar to winter adult with more extensive red on neck. Voice Mostly silent. Status Scarce winter visitor to sheltered inshore seas and estuaries; occasional on inland lakes and reservoirs.
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  • Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena L 40-45cm. Smaller and more stocky than Great Crested, with striking summer plumage. Note diagnostic yellow-based bill. White wing panels seen in flight. Sexes are similar. Adult in summer has red neck and upper breast; head has white-bordered pale grey cheeks and black cap. Upperparts otherwise grey-brown and underparts whitish with grey streaks on flanks. In winter, loses neck colours but often retains hint of reddish collar. Cheek pattern is less well defined and ear coverts are grubby. Juvenile is similar to winter adult with more extensive red on neck. Voice Mostly silent. Status Scarce winter visitor to sheltered inshore seas and estuaries; occasional on inland lakes and reservoirs.
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  • Purple Heron - Ardea purpurea Wetland bird, associated with reedbeds in Europe but more general marshland habitats elsewhere. Breeds across temperate Europe and Asia, winters in southern Asia and Africa. Maroon and orange-buff plumage allow separation from Grey Heron.
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Californian race
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  • Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
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  • Mute Swan - Cygnus olor
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  • Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula (male)
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  • Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
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  • Common Coot - Fulica atra
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  • Temminck's Stint - Calidris temminckii
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  • Eurasian Spoonbill - Platalea leucorodia
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  • Spoonbill - Platalea leucorodia
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  • Rock Nuthatch - Sitta neumayer
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  • Mute Swan - Cygnus olor - adult
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  • Canada Goose - Branta canadensis
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  • Stone Curlew - Burrhinus oedicnemus
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  • Brown Pelican - Pelicanus occidentalis - Californian race
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  • Mute Swan - Cygnus olor
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  • Little Owl - Athene noctua
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  • Red-legged Partridge - Alectoris rufa
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  • Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago
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  • Little Owl - Athene noctua
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  • Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
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  • Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
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  • Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritis
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  • Osprey - Pandion haliaetus - adult bird USA
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  • Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga
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  • Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago
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  • Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga - male yawning after preening
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