Tag: alcids

Trips

To bird or not to bird…

June 22, 2024 by Peter No Comments

Naturally, I am thinking of Shakespeare’s play while the ferry approaches Helsingør’s Kronborg Castle (Elsinore). The sea is frothing with Great Cormorant and Herring...

Trips

Amazing Alcids at Shinnecock Inlet

January 7, 2019 by Corey 3 Comments

When reports of an extremely cooperative Thick-billed Murre at Shinnecock Inlet starting coming in early last week I resigned myself to living vicariously through...

Birds

The Gawky Guillemot

March 5, 2017 by Jochen No Comments

I guess we can universally agree that the colonial times were a rather selfish period of European history. There is indeed little good that...

Birds

What’s in a Name: A Murrelet Assortment

February 3, 2017 by Carrie 1 Comment

It is now the month of love, and there are few birds I love more than the alcids. Thus, a day of murrelets and...

Birds

The Great Cascades Caper: Found Pages From the First, and Last, Birding-themed Choose Your Own Adventure Novel

July 3, 2015 by Carrie 1 Comment

While on a top-secret mission, I found the following at the bottom of a box filled with Petersonania and cheaply-printed knockoff Fuertes prints. The...

Birds

All about alcids: Extravagant divers of northern oceans

August 10, 2014 by David 7 Comments

Across the world’s northern oceans, 24 species of auklets, murres, puffins, guillemots, and related seabirds make a living catching food beneath the waves and...