guillemot
noun
guil·le·mot
ˈgi-lə-ˌmät 
1
British
: a common murre (Uria aalge)
2
: any of a genus (Cepphus) of narrow-billed auks of northern seas
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Seabirds like puffins, fulmars and guillemots nest on the rocky cliffs of the islands.
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Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
At Cape Ann, a black guillemot was found at Pebble Beach in Rockport, five unseasonal black-legged kittiwakes at Andrews Point in Rockport, five red crossbills at Mount Ann Park in Gloucester and two pine siskins at Halibut Point in Rockport.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
At Salisbury a black guillemot , at Halibut Point in Rockport a black vulture.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
On a Zodiac ride off Alkefjellet, the air is alive with birds, including tens of thousands of Brünnich’s guillemots as well as glaucous gulls and kittiwakes, which nest in that island’s cliffs, while a young male polar bear munches on a ring seal, chin glistening red.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2023
At Cape Ann off Rockport, a summering harlequin duck and a black guillemot offshore at the Dry Salvages, and at Andrews Point in Rockport, a common murre and three black guillemots.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Pacific loons, 3 common murres, a black guillemot, 50 razorbills, 6 great cormorants.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2022
That bird is the black guillemot, a sleek ebony sea bird that spends its entire life in the Arctic.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
From Plum Island, came reports of two little blue herons, a Baird’s sandpiper, a black guillemot, and a yellow-throated warbler.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
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Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
At Cape Ann, a black guillemot was found at Pebble Beach in Rockport, five unseasonal black-legged kittiwakes at Andrews Point in Rockport, five red crossbills at Mount Ann Park in Gloucester and two pine siskins at Halibut Point in Rockport.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
At Salisbury a black guillemot , at Halibut Point in Rockport a black vulture.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
On a Zodiac ride off Alkefjellet, the air is alive with birds, including tens of thousands of Brünnich’s guillemots as well as glaucous gulls and kittiwakes, which nest in that island’s cliffs, while a young male polar bear munches on a ring seal, chin glistening red.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2023
At Cape Ann off Rockport, a summering harlequin duck and a black guillemot offshore at the Dry Salvages, and at Andrews Point in Rockport, a common murre and three black guillemots.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Pacific loons, 3 common murres, a black guillemot, 50 razorbills, 6 great cormorants.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2022
That bird is the black guillemot, a sleek ebony sea bird that spends its entire life in the Arctic.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
From Plum Island, came reports of two little blue herons, a Baird’s sandpiper, a black guillemot, and a yellow-throated warbler.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
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