Natural History Wanderings

MSN reported

Among the usual crowd” of birds off the California coast, one caught the eye of conservationists.

The bird, spotted on Farallon Islands in July, had a “bright orange bill and distinctive forehead crest” and brought a “serious punk rock energy to the usual seabird scene,” Point Blue Conservation Science said in an Aug. 8 Facebook post.

Conservationists said the “rare Crested Auklet (was) roosting on the water off Shubrick Point.”

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