Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4,5-5,6 L IS USM, development in Lightroom.
Photographed on a birdwatchers' boat trip to the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
Two of the boats that ferry visitors to the Farnes from Seahouses are in the photo. The Lighthouse is Longstone Lighthouse. Wikipedia: "Longstone Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse located on Longstone Rock in the outer group of the Farne Islands off the Northumberland Coast, England. Completed in 1826, it was originally called the Outer Farne Lighthouse, and complemented the earlier Inner Farne Lighthouse. The lighthouse is best known for the 1838 wreck of the Forfarshire and the role of Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, in rescuing survivors."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longstone_Lighthouse
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Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4,5-5,6 L IS USM, development in Lightroom.
Photographed on a birdwatchers' boat trip to the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
Rissa tridactyla - Black-legged Kittiwake - Dreizehenmöwe - Drieteenmeeuw - Mouette tridactyle - Gaviota Patas Negras - Gabbiano tridattilo - Tretåig mås - Ride - Pikkukajava - Mewa trójpalczasta - . . .
Wikipedia: "The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Larus tridactylus. The English name is derived from its call, a shrill 'kittee-wa-aaake, kitte-wa-aaake'. The genus name Rissa is from the Icelandic name rita for this bird, and the specific tridactyla is from Ancient Greek tridaktulos, "three-toed", from tri-, "three-" and daktulos, "toe".
In North America, this species is known as the black-legged kittiwake to differentiate it from the red-legged kittiwake, but in Europe, where it is the only member of the genus, it is often known just as kittiwake."
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4494-Rissa-tridactyla
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Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4,5-5,6 L IS USM, development in Lightroom.
Photographed on a birdwatchers' boat trip to the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
Gulosus aristotelis - European Shag - Krähenscharbe - Topskarv - Cormoran huppé - Cormorán moñudo - Toppskarv - Topskarv - karimetso - Kormoran czubaty - . . .
Wikipedia (edited): "The European shag was formerly classified within the genus Phalacrocorax, but a 2014 study found it to be significantly more diverged than the clade containing Phalacrocorax and Urile, but basal to the clade containing Nannopterum and Leucocarbo, and thus classified it in its own genus, Gulosus.
It feeds in the sea, and, unlike the great cormorant, is rare inland. It will winter along any coast that is well-supplied with fish. The European shag is one of the deepest divers among the cormorant family. Using depth gauges, European shags were recorded diving up to 61m deep. European shags are preponderantly benthic zone feeders, i.e. they find their prey on the sea bottom. They will eat a wide range of fish but their commonest prey is the sand eel. Shags will travel many kilometres from their roosting sites in order to feed."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farne_Islands
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1289604-Gulosus-aristotelis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_shag
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Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4,5-5,6 L IS USM, development in Lightroom.
Photographed on a birdwatchers' boat trip to the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
Uria aalge - Common Guillemot (Common Murre) - Trottellumme - Zeekoet - Guillemot de Troïl - Arao común - Uria - Sillgrissla - Lomvie - Nurzyk zwyczajny - . . .
Wikipedia (edited): "The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. It spends most of its time at sea, only coming to land to breed on rocky cliff shores or islands.
Guillemots are fast in direct flight but are not very agile. They can manoeuvre better underwater, where they typically dive to depths of 30–60m. They breed in colonies at high densities; nesting pairs may be in bodily contact with their neighbours. They make no nest; their single egg is incubated on a bare rock ledge on a cliff face.
Some individuals in the North Atlantic, known as "bridled guillemots", have a white ring around the eye extending back as a white line. This is not a distinct subspecies, but a polymorphism that becomes more common the farther north the birds breed."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farne_Islands
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4519-Uria-aalge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_murre
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Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4,5-5,6 L IS USM, development in Lightroom.
Photographed on a birdwatchers' boat trip to the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
Wikipedia: "The razorbill (Alca torda) is a North Atlantic colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks. It is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (Pinguinus impennis). [ ... ] The genus name Alca is from Norwegian Alke, and torda is from törd a Gotland Swedish dialect word. Both terms refer to this species."
Alca torda - Razorbill - Tordalk - Alk - Pingouin torda - Alca común - Gazza marina - Tordmule - Alke - Ruokki - Alka - . . .
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4501-Alca-torda
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