<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The Pigeon Guillemot coloration is different in the winter and breeding adults. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Winter white.</div><div class="">Breeding adult brown.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nat Geo "Birds of North America” 7th edition. Page 170.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="js-about-item-abstr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">when in breeding plumage, are dark brown with a black iridescent sheen and a distinctive wing patch broken by a brown-black wedge.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_guillemot" class="js-about-item-more-at-inline tx--bold module__more-at" title="Wikipedia" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); display: inline; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; max-width: 270px; white-space: nowrap; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wikipedia</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Larry Schwitters</div><div class="">Issaquah<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 2, 2023, at 8:22 AM, <a href="mailto:jimbetz@jimbetz.com" class="">jimbetz@jimbetz.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello all,<br class=""><br class=""> Everyone says "Pigeon Guillemot" ... I'm not disputing that ... but no<br class="">one has explained the color ... the bird I saw was definitely in that<br class="">light reddish-brown. I agree with all of the shape identifiers making it<br class="">a pigeon guillemot. But ...<br class=""> I have gone back and played with the image using Elements and no matter<br class="">what I do with the saturation and/or the brightness settings the best I<br class="">can get it to is a light gray.<br class=""> Yet every ID info image I can find shows the pigeon guillemot to be<br class="">dark gray or even black. ???<br class=""><br class=""> One person said to notice the Pelagic Cormorants in the pilings of the<br class="">Anacortes Ferry terminal. I did see cormorants ... but my ID has them as<br class="">Double-crested. They were on the pilings right by the ferry and also on<br class="">the pilings of the old cannery at Ship Harbor. Note the color of the<br class="">bill area in this picture ...<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-Zsx37pc/A" class="">https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-Zsx37pc/A</a><br class=""><br class=""> ... however, I'm 'conflicted' about the ID because I did not detect the<br class=""> crest in any of them (at either location). I did consider the<br class=""> Pelagic ... but the bill area color got me to say "Double".<br class=""><br class=""> Your thoughts on either of these questions are appreciated.<br class=""><br class=""> - Jim<br class=""><br class="">Quoting <a href="mailto:jimbetz@jimbetz.com" class="">jimbetz@jimbetz.com</a>:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi,<br class=""> I was this bird at the ferry slip at Friday Harbor on Sunday, the 30th.<br class="">I've spent almost 2 hours searching for an ID and can't come up with it.<br class="">Any assistance appreciated!<br class=""> Yes, the colors in this pic are correct/very close.<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-57cqKhd/A" class="">https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-57cqKhd/A</a><br class=""><br class=""> - Jim<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tweeters mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br class="">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>