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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Black Guillemot

Adult Black Guillemot in summer plumage

Black Guillemot

Cepphus grylle

Gaelic: Garra-breac

Photograph © Debbie Bozkurt
Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
10th February, 2007

 

Our Black Guillemot photographs

Black Guillemot	Black Guillemot

 

• Black Guillemot
• Cepphus grylle
• Gaelic: Garra-breac, Calltag
• WI: Common resident breeder (1000 -10,000 breeding pairs)
  One of the largest Black Guillemot colonies in the UK is on the Monach Islands
  

The collective name for auks is a raft, colony, flock of auks.

 

Black Guillemot records in the Western Isles

Common resident breeder (1000 -10,000 breeding pairs)
One of the largest Black Guillemot colonies in the UK is on the Monach Islands (part of the Western Isles)
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more abundant the Black Guillemot is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

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