How To Use Guillemot In A Sentence
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Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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The analysis showed that positive population trends occurred at guillemot colonies where SST changes were small, while negative trends occurred where large increases or large decreases in SST occurred.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are the most favoured items of diet.
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The great auk was no biological relation to the Antarctic birds: it was a cousin of the razorbill and the guillemot, which had evolved quite separately.
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The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron.
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A pair of black guillemots, already in winter plumage, fled in panic.
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Many species - including gannets, puffins, guillemots, and kittiwakes - nest on cuffs over 900 feet high.
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It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
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Scapa Beach has been particularly badly affected, with over 200 guillemots found as well as puffins, razorbills and tysties.
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Birds such as the common murre and pigeon guillemot recovered slightly shortly after the Exxon Valdez spill, then saw their numbers plummet the next decade, she says.
Scientists grapple with BP oil spill's cost to bird life
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Rafts of puffins and guillemots bobbed on the glassy surface of the water, and I decided to stay here until we passed the bows of the Inverlane.
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The puffins are the biggest draw but a vast array of other seabirds including tens of thousands of guillemots and razorbills are there during the spring and summer.
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It's been estimated that a million birds nest here, including puffins, razorbills, common and Brünnich's guillemots, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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Coastal and seabird numbers have remained stable, with big increases in guillemot numbers balancing the decline in kittiwakes.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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Pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba) populations began to increase within three to four years following fox removal at Kiska Island and 20-fold increases occurred in guillemot numbers at Niski-Alaid Island within 15 years of fox removal [74].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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There have been catastrophic breeding seasons in recent years for birds such as kittiwakes and guillemots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its sounds are the shriek of kittiwakes, guillemots and gulls, and the idle drone of sheep.
Times, Sunday Times
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One would imagine this place to be a paradise of alcids of all types, guillemots, dovekies, puffins, razorbills, murres, and murrelets all splashing around in their black and white finery.
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However, the network being created by the connected seals may not work for flightier creatures, such as guillemots and kittiwakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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If something black and white whirs by, it's probably a pigeon guillemot, a cousin of the puffin that nests in cliffside cavities.
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The Kvarken Archipelago is on an important migratory route and offers excellent breeding habitats for birds: There are important Baltic populations of black guillemot Cepphus grille (6,000 pairs, a quarter of the Baltic population) and razorbill Alca torda (1,000 pairs); also Caspian and Arctic terns Sterna caspia and S. paradisea, whitetailed eagle Haliaetus albicilla (35 pairs), osprey Pandion haliaetus andgreat scaup Aythya marila.
Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
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The razorbill, fulmar, guillemot, kittiwake, chough and short-eared owl will all make your acquaintance on this magical island.
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But again it's almost impossible to enjoy anything in naïve purity, there's always the follow-up of a cheerfully told story, this time the ominous description by environmental health scientist Joy Guillemot of "bioaccumulation," or why the buildup of heavy metals and toxins is so devastating here, accumulating in the fat of resident animals and people alike (it is largely a consequence of the way the ocean currents wash and dump toxins that travel up the food chain).
Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel
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From time to time I smiled at the Swedish guillemot and looked at the two-year-old girl she held in her arms.
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These results demonstrate that most guillemot colonies perform best when temperatures are approximately stable, suggesting that each colony is adapted to local conditions [37].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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Virtually all Guillemots in Britain nest either on sea-girt cliffs or on small islands whence the chicks can readily reach the water.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children.
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Birds such as the common murre and pigeon guillemot recovered slightly shortly after the Exxon Valdez spill, then saw their numbers plummet the next decade, she says.
Scientists grapple with BP oil spill's cost to bird life
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Small fish and a variety of other aquatic creatures, including mollusks and crustaceans, make up the Pigeon Guillemot's diet.
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Penguins, cormorants, murres, and guillemots - all pursuit divers - have, among seabirds, the heaviest eggshells as a percentage of whole-egg weight.
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Common eiders, thick-billed murre, and black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) are the most commonly harvested seabird species in arctic Canada, and are utilized by indigenous people wherever they are available [33].
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic
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One would imagine this place to be a paradise of alcids of all types, guillemots, dovekies, puffins, razorbills, murres, and murrelets all splashing around in their black and white finery.
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A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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Ornithologists suggested it was more likely to be a bedraggled guillemot.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the eleventh lap Guillemot recovered his position, dislodging Higgins as pursuit man.
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But again it's almost impossible to enjoy anything in naïve purity, there's always the follow-up of a cheerfully told story, this time the ominous description by environmental health scientist Joy Guillemot of "bioaccumulation," or why the buildup of heavy metals and toxins is so devastating here, accumulating in the fat of resident animals and people alike (it is largely a consequence of the way the ocean currents wash and dump toxins that travel up the food chain).
Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel
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Some 100 acres of his farm runs on to the Flamborough Head clifftops, next door to the RSPB sanctuary, with puffins, guillemots and gannets flying below and birds like linnets, grey partridge and corn bunting in the fields.
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I had the delightful privilege at lunchtime to watch the most charming little birdies on the sea - black guillemots or tysties.
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One would imagine this place to be a paradise of alcids of all types, guillemots, dovekies, puffins, razorbills, murres, and murrelets all splashing around in their black and white finery.
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A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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The guillemot is a diving bird found in the Northern seas, while the penguin may be looked upon as representing the divers of the Southern Ocean.
Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
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One would imagine this place to be a paradise of alcids of all types, guillemots, dovekies, puffins, razorbills, murres, and murrelets all splashing around in their black and white finery.
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There's a mild climb about half a mile back, guillemot ledge.
She Closed Her Eyes
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children.
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In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are most favoured items of diet.
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Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), dovekie (little auk), razorbills (Alca torda), and black guillemots are legally hunted in Labrador.
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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It is a sheer basalt rock cliff on which thousands of razor bills, guillemots, kittiwakes, shags and fulmars nest.
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Small fish and a variety of other aquatic creatures, including mollusks and crustaceans, make up the Pigeon Guillemot's diet.
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Pigeon Guillemots are found along rocky shores and inshore waters along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California.
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The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance.
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As well as many types of gull you will see eider ducks, mergansers, black guillemots (known as tysties in Orkney) shags and cormorants.
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The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron.
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Arctic terns, arctic skuas, guillemots, kittiewakes and fulmars are all suffering, with numbers drastically down, while all the large arctic tern colonies in the North Isles have already failed.
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Throughout the isles you'll come across throngs of Arctic terns and both species of skuas, as well as black guillemots, gannets, shags, and Storm and Leach's petrels.
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins.
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It reared some 175m above the water, its crevices packed with noisy gannets, puffins, guillemots and gulls.
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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Guillemots often forage solitarily, or in small groups, and they primarily select nearshore demersal fishes (sculpins, blennies, stichaeids, and pholidids) for their chicks.
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The nesting practices of Pigeon Guillemots vary from those of other alcids.
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The main body of the solan geese build on the West Craigs, although a number build also on the Main Craigs; while the guillemots and razorbills seem to confine themselves to the West.
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The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron.
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The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance.
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The only wild animal is the mouse; but the islets swarm with myriads of sea-fowl-fulmar, puffins, guillemots, razor-bills, and solan geese, which annually supply the islanders with great part of their wealth.
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The razorbill, fulmar, guillemot, kittiwake, chough and short-eared owl will all make your acquaintance on this magical island.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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They include tundra swans, arctic terns, northern fulmars, black guillemot, and various loons, ducks, geese, gulls, jaegers, and alcids.
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She was pretty but far too guillemot-like for my taste, with a long neck and a beak nose, as thin as a rake.
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