Anglesey identifications request (1 Viewer)

[iamjulian]

Hello
I am not sure whether this is the done thing, but it seemed easier than posting lots of new threads. Basically I am pretty new to birding, and very new to sea birds! The images attached were all taken on Anglesey last week. I think I know some, but others I am not so sure about.

a) ???
b) Herring Gull?
c) Double Crested Cormorant?
d) Razorbill?
e) Greylag Goose?
f) They were all part of a large group that were swarming very close to the water. I guess the one on the right with the white head is a young Plover of some type? But is the smaller one with the longer beak and black breast a Dunlin?
g) ???
h) Great or Lesser? Black Backed Gull

Thank you very much for any help with these.

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

a. Redpoll
b. Herring Gull
c. Shag (DC Cormorant is a very rare vagrant to Europe)
d. Razorbill
e. Greylag Goose
f. Turnstone and Dunlin
g. Herring Gull
h. Great Black-backed Gull

 

[chris butterworth]

Agree. The only possible confusion with c. would be Great Cormorant which would look heavier, have more yellow on the face and, at this time of year, white thighs. As Andrew has said Double-crested Cormorant, an American species, is exceptionally rare on this side of the Atlantic.

Chris

 

[iamjulian]

Thank you Andrew, Chris

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Just to add that g is a youngster - gulls take three or four years to reach full adult plumage.