This is a guillemot (Uri aalge). A seabird found along the Scandinavian coast. This fellow is suffering from a leg injury and recoverying at a small animal rehabilitation centre north of Stockholm in Sweden.
According to Ann Novek, who sent in the photograph, some birds are more relaxed with a mirror for company.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
The guillemots can be found along the Scandinavian coast, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Some colonies in Spain and France as well, but they were almost swiped out by the Prestige oil spill in 2002.
The problem to rehabilitate seabirds is that in the rehab centres the air is usually too dry.
Even if the seabirds live most of their lives on clifts and stony and rocky parts of the coast , their feets are prone to dry out during a visit in a rehab centre. It is wise to smear in the feets in some kind of a moisturizer.
Optimal floor for the birds is Astroturf.
Note as well, that the birds in the rehab centre have three stages in their rehabilitation process.
First they are kept in an emergency room. Then they will be kept under strict observation in quite small cages ( see pic). And their final stage is keeping them in a quite big outdoor cage as well with a room with access to swimming opportunities.
We use as well shower the seabirds each day to keep their plummage in shape.
Shoot it!!
Just don’t shoot your fellow yanks.
Oh can the yanks and pro-yank-gun-laws come back on post and tell us all agin how gun ownership prevents gun crimes? hahahahahahahahah this blog goes from birdbrains to silly ganders and you birds of a feather flocking well share the same brain cell.
Just like the dailies, if you got nothing else to post then whack up some cute animal pic for the Ooohh factor. Then next post, tell us again how there’s no such thing as biodiversity again and it’s not threatened anyway and ice is thickening and the concept of pollution and toxins is entirely a greenie conspiracy.
PS ann you’re a cool chick. If it was admissable on the dinner table though, would you rehabilitate it and release it and then try to catch it & eat it?
Pinxi!!
As chicks go, most just want them plucked, cooked, served on the table with chips.
Ann; your guillemot looks like our penguin. It probably fills a similar role underwater in the colder northern hemisphere fishery.
I once watched a lone fairy penguin rolling up a big school of tiny fish into a frenzy of colour in a tight ball just below the surface. As the silver ball turned to crimson or orange the bird flashed through the centre then rounded up the resulting swirl over and over.
Hello Pixie,
I have missed your comments, good to see you back on the track!
>PS ann you’re a cool chick. If it was admissable on the dinner table though, would you rehabilitate it and release it and then try to catch it & eat it?
Actually Pixie one bird hunter told us that he didn’t mind at all us a bit crazy animal people saving all those birds , as this meant that he would have more to hunt next season;)Hopefully he was just joking!
Re meat and birds. Don’t think you get enough of meat from most birds and birds as Canadian geese whose hunt is maybe sustainable, taste old shoes.
OK, bigger birds as some ducks, pheasants and swans give you enough meat. Swans used to be a delicacy in the old times , served only to noblemen and served on the dinner table with full plummage.
Now they have a protected status. Illegal to hunt .
There are animal centres that only take care of endangered species, but our policy is that we take care of all species , but we are only funded by the city to taking care of protected species and not birds as gulls.
This policy is not right IMO, as many gulls and terns are really threatened as Arctic gulls and silver terns , that btw migrate each season from the North Pole to the South Pole. COOL!
Yeah Gavin,
The guillemot looks a bit like a penguin. Its name in Swedish translated to English means a guillemot that preys on herring ( and herring is a shool fish) that the killer whales eat as well.
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane” – Kilgore Trout.
Thanks Travis.