Bird name:

Black Guillemot

Cepphus grylleOrder: CHARADRIIFORMES Family: Auks, Murres and Puffins (Alcidae)

Codes: Common Name: BLGU Scientific Name: CEPGRY ITIS Taxonomic No.: 176985

Black Guillemot Winter - The winter Black Guillemot is similar to the juvenile but has a less mottled head and neck and white underparts.

Black Guillemot Juvenile - The juvenile Black Guillemot is mottled black and white overall.

Black Guillemot - The breeding adult Black Guillemot is all black with a large white wing patch and bright red legs and feet

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Black Guillemot

Black Guillemot Adult: Medium-sized seabird, black body with a large white wing patch and a dark, pointed bill. In flight white auxillaries and underwing linings are visible. Legs and feet are red. It flies low over the water with rapid wing beats. The inside of their mouth is bright orange.

● Song: "peeee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Black Guillemot: Eats polychaetes, mollusks, jellyfish, crustaceans, sponges, crabs, barnacles, and fish; forages by diving from the surface.

● Breeding & nesting: Black Guillemot: One to two white eggs, sometimes tinted blue-green, with black, brown, and gray markings, are laid in a nest made of debris and small stones, and built under a rock either on a bare surface or on loose pebbles. Incubation ranges from 23 to 39 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Black Guillemot: Pigeon Guillemot has dark wing linings and axillaries, and black bar on white shoulder patch.

Flight Pattern

Direct flight with rapid wing beats low over water.

● Range & Habitat: Black Guillemot: Breeds from Arctic Alaska and Canada south along Atlantic coast to Maine. Spends winters south to the Bering Sea and Long Island (rarely); also winters in northern Europe, Scandinavia, and Alaska. Preferred habitats include rocky coasts.

^BreedingMonogamous, Small colonies, Semicolonial

^PopulationFairly common

^MigrationMost do not migrate

^Weight14.3 Ounces

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Black Guillemot

Black Guillemot

Flight Pattern