black guillemot

British  

noun

1. a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle : its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings

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Example Sentences

There is good news for some of the seabirds that breed in the UK, with the shag moving from the red list to the amber and the black guillemot from the amber to the green.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

In the years that followed, seabirds like the black guillemot started arriving earlier, laying eggs earlier and not surviving as well, he said, blaming warming.

From Washington Times • Jun. 19, 2018

George Divoky and others have been tracking how early the black guillemot bird lays its first egg on far north Cooper Islands.

From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2015

A black guillemot, like an omen of evil, passed over Ootah's head.

From The Eternal Maiden by Harré, T. Everett

Saw an auk or black guillemot to-day, and later a sea-gull in the distance.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof