Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet: 

This picture is from http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Gannet/id.  Unfortunately the bird that I saw was not alive laying on the beach.  Quite sad because it is a beautiful bird so I hope to see more flying around soon.  As you can see they have a beautiful brilliant white body and black tip wings.  There is also the light brown/bronzish color on the back of their heads and a light grayish/blue beak.  I had to do a bit of research of this bird because I have never seen one birding before and I found out that the adults look like the picture above but the juvenile of this species looks quite different.  The juvenile Northern Gannet is mostly dark and from the link above it explains that it takes the juvenile three or more years to reach the adult plummage.