I have procured several ringed guillemotsboth in winter and summer; I have also been shown places in the cliffs where the fishermen say they breed.
Guillemots and Razorbills return at intervals to the breeding stations early in the season, and these visits are repeated with growing frequency until the birds are finally established.
Many of the large assemblages of Guillemots in the British Islands are found where the rock is quartzite, mica-schist, limestone, or chalk.
Some useful observations, which throw some light on the distance that Guillemots are accustomed to wander from land, were made by Lieut.
It is readily distinguished from the Guillemots by its much deeper bill, crossed by a white line at its centre, and by a narrow yet very conspicuous white stripe, extending from the base of the bill to the eye.
As Professor Newton justly asks,[4] What becomes of the millions of Guillemots and other Auks that breed in northern latitudes?
Black Guillemots may often be seen in strings, flying to and from a distant feeding place, hurrying along close to the water, their short wings beating rapidly, and rendered very conspicuous by the broad white bar.
This peculiarity has induced some systematists to restrict the genus Uria to the Black Guillemots alone.
At Heligoland, and certainly other places, Guillemots return to their nesting places from time to time during the winter, appearing in the morning for a little while, just as Rooks are wont to do at the nest trees.
The complete change from white to brownish-black observed prior to the breeding season on the necks and heads of Guillemots and Razorbills is very curious and interesting.
The breeding distribution and population of guillemots (Uria aalge) in Norway.
I have often seen leads a quarter mile wide refrozen to the point where new ice covered all but a small patch of open water; black guillemots were frequently crowded into this open water.
Of the four circumpolar species the two Uria guillemots (murres) are important.
For the whole area there are probably fewer than a hundred birds each of black guillemots and pigeon guillemots (Cepphus columba) occupying colonies.
Before the lead closes completely the guillemots must fly to an open lead.
It is evident that guillemots appear to be small in number when compared with other seabirds nesting at major colony sites in the north Pacific region (Table 10).
Feathers of a large sample of black guillemots and murres from the Cattegat and the Baltic had higher mercury levels than those from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The men in almost all reports were said to have worn bird-skin parkas; puffins and guillemots appear to have been preferred, but cormorants were sometimes used.
Glaucous gulls and black guillemotsare also associated with the advancing ice edge (Watson and Divoky 1972).
Thus the gulls, although usually self-foragers, will, as I have often observed, congregate in enormous numbers where the guillemots have found a shoal of fish.
Here many walruses and bears were secured during the winter, while in summer, from Kent Island, many guillemots were secured.
About this giant cliff, gulls, guillemots and ravens talked and winged uproariously.
The cry of gulls and guillemots echoed from rock to rock.
The ice groaned; the eiderducks, guillemots and gulls uttered shrill and disturbing cries, seemingly sensing the coming of a storm.
Even the voices of the sinister black guillemots and ravens were heard no more.
Guillemots lay two eggs upon the bare rock or gravel in crevices or under piles of boulders where they are difficult to get at.
Their food, like that of the murres, puffins and guillemots is of fish and shell fish, or marine worms.
She remembered the guillemots and their rudeness and the way they had stormed and jeered at the boat--did all that mean more than the politeness and friendliness of the penguins?
If she were lying dead would not the guillemots pass her without enmity and the penguins without friendliness, as indifferent to her fate as the wave of the sea on the blowing wind?
And across all that not a sign of life save the wings of the tireless birds, teal and duck, cormorants, and beyond the seaward rocks the great sea geese fishing and the guillemots flighting and the white tern darting like dragon-flies.
The sight seemed to bring the hostile coast leagues nearer and the bagpipe crying of the guillemots as it died away behind them seemed a barrier passed, never to be re-crossed.
In a life so fraught with anxieties, exposures, and dangers, it is not strange that the guillemots keep up a ceaseless clang of excited conversation, a very riot and wrangle of altercation and argument which the circumstances seem to warrant.
If guillemots are watched closely, one may be noticed now and again to scrape with its beak for some time at the ledge where it is lying, opening and closing its mandibles upon it.
This, then, is how guillemots procure the small stones which are, no doubt, necessary to them for digestive purposes.
In their small size and rounded shape, in their deariness, their pretty little ways and actions, in everything, almost, these little black guillemots are the marine counterpart of the dabchick or little grebe.
The ledges of the perpendicular shore-cliffs of the island formed the breeding-place of numberless looms and kittiwakes, to which a few black guillemots attached themselves.
The black guillemots and rotges fly swiftly and well; Brünnich's guillemots, on the contrary, heavily and ill.
Stolbovoj Island was, especially on the north side, high with precipitous shore-cliffs which afforded splendid breeding-places for looms, black guillemots and gulls.
The black guillemots often swim out together in pairs in the fjords.
Along with the swans and geese, a large number of waders, a couple of species of Lestris, an owl and other birds breed on the plains of Gooseland, and a few guillemots or gulls upon the summits of the strand cliffs.
Dusky cormorants scud with necks outstretched athwart the sparkling waves, while kittiwakes and guillemots crowd shoulder to shoulder upon the inaccessible ledges.
And then the lugsail was hauled down, and they lay on the lapping water; and they could hear all around them the soft callings of the guillemots and razor-bills, and other divers whose home is the heaving wave.
Unfortunately, the demand for the wings and down of the Guillemots has reached a point which is not unlikely to lead to their extermination.
Glancing aloft, we see many Black Guillemots in the clefts; and above them is the eyrie of the White-tailed Eagle.
The Guillemots during winter are frequently seen in immense numbers on Rock-all Bank and on the banks of Newfoundland.
Mingled amongst them are the Guillemots and Razorbills, the one bird easily identified by its long pointed bill, the other by its deep flattened one crossed with a conspicuous white line on either side.
The Guillemots and Razorbills and Puffins are somewhat irregular in their date of return to the cliffs in spring.
It preys upon the Puffins, Rock Doves, and Guillemots that make the Bass their summer home, and we earnestly hope that it may long continue to frequent this noble pile of rock.
There are few such haunts of Guillemots and Razorbills in the northern shires of England as are located upon some of these grand cliffs.
Then amongst the cliffs great numbers of Guillemots and smaller numbers of Razorbills deposit their eggs in suitable spots; whilst the Jackdaw and the Rock Dove frequent them.
Here they were changed into guillemots or sea-pigeons, with red feet, and even to this day they thus dwell among the débris at the foot of cliffs next to the water of the sea.
All these differ from the larger guillemots by laying two or three eggs, which are generally placed in some secure niche, while the members of the other group lay but a single egg, which is invariably exposed on a bare ledge.
Early in spring Guillemots throng together from all parts of the open sea, and repair to some lofty cliff, where, on a narrow ledge of rock, which in their folly they deem inaccessible, they lay each a single egg.
Considering how close together guillemots stand on the ledges, I should think it must be as plain to their observation as a parting down the hair is to ours.
The larger of the two young guillemots is now frequently flapping its wings, and latterly it has been jumping up, at the same time, though always it keeps in one place by its mother, and does not run about.
They have swum quite like the guillemots in this respect.
Had but one of the guillemots on my own ledge been so good as to bray for me, all would have been well, but never a word did any of them say except "ik, ik, ik!
The three young guillemots are still where they were, but the fourth, which was the first one I saw, and the largest, seems to be gone.
They seem to strike deep from the moment they plunge, and the way they plunge, indeed, suggests this; but guillemots often swim for a long time, not far below the surface.
All these guillemots keep constantly uttering exclamations, as they may be called--different intonations of a deep "ur!
Seven grown guillemots are full in view, and, now and then, two of the chicks.
At the earlier date the guillemots were in the very midst of their domestic duties, so that those feelings proper to the courting period were in abeyance.
Guillemots and razor-bills also act in this way, but not, I think, gulls.
Thousands of guillemots and auks swim in groups around the boat which conveys man to their domain, look curiously at him, and vanish beneath the water to rise in his immediate neighbourhood.
A little higher on the narrow shelves sit the guillemots and auks, arranged as on parade, with their white breasts to the sea, and so close that a hailstone could not pass between them.
This bird is seen in Gairloch and Loch Ewe often along with the guillemots and puffins, and I think it is more abundant than either.
The nearest is at the Shiant Isles, twenty miles away, where a large number of guillemots deposit their single eggs, all of exquisite colouring and marking, but no two the same, on ledges in the face of a high cliff.
I have not heard anything from Herr Mack about the two guillemots I shot," I said to the Doctor.
Two guillemots or two eiderducks--it is all the same.
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