guillemots in English

noun
1
a black-breasted auk (seabird) with a narrow pointed bill, typically nesting on cliff ledges.
The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots , eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron.

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1. Alcids (Puffins, Guillemots, etc.) Atlantic Puffin

2. Brünnich guillemots have spent the summer months packed together on vertical cliffs beyond the reach of predators.

3. The Auks or Family Alcidae (Puffins, Guillemots & Murres) Auks are a medium-sized, generally black and white family of birds which are not well-known to people outside of the bird watching and naturalist community

4. An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, Auklets, puffins, and murrelets.The word auk / ɔː k / is derived from Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ (“sea-bird, auk”).

5. ‘Closely related to the Tufted Puffin, the Rhinoceros Auklet is a large Alcid with a wedge-shaped head.’ ‘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.’

6. Auk (ôk), common name for a member of the family Alcidae (Alcid family), swimming and diving birds of the N Atlantic and Pacific, which includes the guillemots and puffins.Their legs are set far back on their bodies, making them clumsy on land, where they seldom venture except to nest

7. Recent research on the flying behavior of Alaskan Alcids shows how Earth has two kinds of fluid-filled “oceans”, the liquid ocean of sea-water and the gaseous “ocean” of air.1-3 (Alcids are auk-like birds, such as murres, guillemots, and puffins.) The study reveals that these birds, from the Alcidae family which includes puffins, murres and their relatives, produce efficient propulsive