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Help needed on Sea Birds identity

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Posted by Pete Marshall on May 12, 2006 at 11:53 AM
Can anybody help me, I can't identify the birds in the photograph linked here
http://www.petemarshall.shutterchance.com/
Posted by Bob Steele on May 12, 2006 at 12:37 PM
Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Posted by Pete Marshall on May 12, 2006 at 12:49 PM
Thanks very much. I had looked at several birds in my book (new to bird photography) and none seemed to completly match, It may be a colour problem with my picture but the marking on the knecj is yellow (obviously you won't be able to see this on this reproduction) where as in my book it is green.