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Sarasota News Leader February 8, 2013 finally impacting Siesta Key. People fishing in our Gulf or walking the pristine sands of Siesta Beach would come home and say, "You wouldn't believe what I saw." And, of course, no one did! Page 77 And do read some of the interesting facts of its life history. The team's elation upon sighting this migratory Razorbill faded rather quickly because this sub-Arctic dweller is as much out of its Sitting on my favorite oak branch, I overheard element in Florida's warm clime as a true Penevery cruel rebuttal, from, "You really need guin would be. And our waters do not provide to make that ophthalmologist's appointment" the food its specialized diet requires. to "I know you're drinking again." The atmoOn a cheerier note: The newbies, that cousphere was getting pretty ugly and hostile ple who moved here from Wisconsin, discovaround here until the CBC team discovered ered the second rara avis, the Black Scoter that Razorbill. It is not related to Penguins; — quite inadvertently, of course. They were it is a close relative of the now-extinct Great photographing the Red-Breasted Mergansers Auk, and it sure does look like a penguin, parwho had flocked into Little Sarasota Bay in ticularly in flight. unprecedented numbers, and among them Please click on this Cornell University link to were some other "sitting ducks." The newbies the Razorbill and see if you do not agree that it had no idea what any of these birds were, but, really does look exactly like a flying penguin. as second year-CBC tutees, they knew they Nebougepas and Otus Rufous/File photo`