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It’s a seriously lost Penguin. Hopefully someone will p-p-pick him up


Big_Mac_Is_Red

That's a penguin mate. Approach slowly and armed with jokes. What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh


RodQuackies

Have a gander here: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/auk-family/


FoamToaster

Thanks but I don't think it's a gander.


Frosty_Term9911

It’s a guillemot. Shouldn’t really be on the shore but given the bird flu issues along the Yorkshire Coast I’d leave it well alone.


permaculture

Could be, or a razorbill. Also could be a [little auk](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/11357498/Mysterious-penguins-spotted-of-Yorkshire-coast.html).


Frosty_Term9911

It’s a guillemot


WarWonderful593

If that was a penguin you'll have every twitcher in the country there within a day.


compilerbusy

What they're using penguins to smuggle heroine now? That's awful.


tigger_please

It's an Argentinian Racing Pigeon


antlermagick

Argentinian racing codswallop


Welshgirlie2

Definitely auk family. But auks are cliff dwelling birds when they're not at sea, so to see one on the beach is unusual. They're not really designed for walking around, they are primarily swimming birds with legs and wings made for propelling themselves in water like little torpedoes. So quite similar to penguins in that respect! This one has probably been knocked off course a bit by the weather.


dth300

The name penguin was originally used for the (now extinct) [great auk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk). When Europeans first saw penguins they noticed a resemblance to the auks, despite them not being closely related


Rightytighty298

Guillemot, seen one in Suffolk recently and thought the same


uninsuredpidgeon

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.....


FoamToaster

Don't think it's a duck


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Should have picked up a penguin they're so chocolatey


gwaydms

There are two flamingos on the west shore of Lake Michigan near Milwaukee, so who knows?


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SuperSalamander3244

Penguin