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Photography => Non-Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Paul O'Toole on November 14, 2017, 06:28:32 AM

Title: Atlantic Puffins
Post by: Paul O'Toole on November 14, 2017, 06:28:32 AM

Taken this past summer in Spillars Cove, Newfoundland.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4265/35915731085_c066810ce7_c.jpg)

Title: Re: Atlantic Puffins
Post by: Shortsighted on November 14, 2017, 01:42:33 PM

How do you distinguish between gender?
Alas, the GTA has nothing to rival birds like those.
Nice example of perch isolation and aqua scena.
I bet the memory of that moment stays with you.
Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Atlantic Puffins
Post by: Paul O'Toole on November 14, 2017, 07:50:03 PM

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00063657209476343

Title: Re: Atlantic Puffins
Post by: Shortsighted on November 14, 2017, 08:18:18 PM

Thanks for the link. Weight and bill size makes sense.