mc5 - AVMA Take 2

Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....

Irouléguy

A cormorant?

Kim

Grey Gull?

Chalky

A hawk of some kind?

irach

[Irouleguy] Not a cormorant.
[Kim} Not a grey (or otherwise coloured) gull.
[Chalky] No, not a hawk of any kind.

Tern?

[Kim] Not a tern.

Native to the UK?

[Kim] Not native to the UK, according to the British Ornithologists' Union list of British birds.
[Rosie] In researching your earlier question, Yes, it is of emblematic and/or symbolic significance.

Irouléguy

A puffin?

irach

[Irouleguy] Not a puffin.

ImNotJohn

Waterfowl of some nature?

Rosie

A vulture?

(irach) Thanks for doing that. :-)

irach

[INJ] A waterbird that frequents water, yes.
[Rosie] No, not a vulture.

CdM

A loon?

irach

[CdM] Not a loon.

ImNotJohn

Endangered?

[CdM] The loon is on the British list, only it's called 'Great Northern Diver'
[Irach] By waterfowl I meant a bird in the duck, coot, rail group, to distinguish it from say Fish Eagle or heron.

irach

[CdM] Not a duck, loon, goose, swan, coot, rail or gallinule. Not Anidae.

irach

[CdM] That should read Anatidae, of course.

irach

[INJ] Not endangered. At least one species of this bird was endangered earlier, but has made a good recovery and is no longer considered so.