Anyone care to identify this seabird in the painting of Staffa island that is currently on loan from the Yale Centre of British Art and on display in an exhibition of works by Turner and Constable at London’s Tate Gallery. The former is understood to have been commissioned to depict Staffa for the purpose of illustrating a collection of poems by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott. The Hebridean island is summer home to Fulmars, Kittiwakes, Gannets, Arctic Terns and auk species including Puffins. We reckon the species Turner's bird most resembles is Arctic Tern.
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