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black guillemot

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

In the sky overhead the black guillemot screamed.

From The Eternal Maiden by Harré, T. Everett

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