The Kittiwake makes its nest of eel-weeds, several inches in thickness, and in places too small for a Gannet or a Guillemot to place itself; in some instances these nests projected some inches over the edge of the rock.
Of course I cannot say that the rule is universal, but I never saw a guillemot incubating with its face turned towards the sea, nor did I ever see a chick on the seaward side of the parent bird who was with it.
The guillemot dives more or less like the razorbill, but I have not been successful in tracing him under the water.
Yet the black guillemot is a fair flier, having to ascend the precipices, and the dabchick too, for the matter of that, can if he chooses rise into the air and fly seriously.
Like the Guillemot the Razorbill makes no nest, but lays its single egg in a crevice or hole in the cliffs, or far under stacks of rock, poised one upon another, where to reach it is an utter impossibility.
Some eggs of the Guillemot closely resemble those of the Razorbill, but may be distinguished by the yellowish-white interior of the shell when held up to the light.
I have never heard the Black Guillemot utter a sound beyond a low grunting; but its note has been described as a whining sound, that of the young birds being more shrill.
Otherwise, the Razorbill closely resembles the Guillemot in appearance, both in its summer and winter plumage.
With us the Black Guillemot is strictly marine in its haunts, but in Spitzbergen it was found breeding more than a mile inland--a habit very different from any it displays with us.
The food of thisGuillemot is largely composed of the fry of the herring and the coal-fish, but other small fishes are eaten, as are crustaceans, and various marine insects.
The distribution of the Guillemot becomes much more local during summer, the birds crowding in vast numbers to certain time-honoured spots.
There has been much controversy as to the way in which the Guillemot chicks reach the water from their lofty birthplace.
In chasing its finny prey under the water the Black Guillemot displays astonishing powers, darting to and fro, aided by its wings and feet.
The Black Guillemot is nothing near so gregarious as the Common Guillemot, nor does it appear to wander so far from its breeding places to feed.
The Guillemot swims well and buoyantly; it also dives with remarkable agility, and obtains most of its food whilst doing so.
In connection with the Guillemot mention should be made of the Ringed Guillemot, the Uria ringvia of Latham.
Among the auks, the black guillemot breeds in the Cattegat area in the huge heaps of boulders on small raised islets, or in holes (mostly formed by starlings, Sturnus vulgaris) on steep clayey slopes or promontories.
The summer diet of the pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba) is the best known among seabirds in the region being considered here (Table 3).
It would be interesting to follow the response of guillemot populations on islands where rats had been totally removed, if that ever becomes more than a dream.
The dovekie (Alle alle) is a sparse pioneer of Bering Strait, as is the black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) on our side of the Arctic Sea.
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) The pigeon guillemot is common throughout the region from Cape Fairweather to Washington.
Because of the dispersed way in which it breeds and because it does much of its feeding in the onshore zone (which is hazardous for boats) the pigeon guillemot is an almost impossible species to inventory by standard methods.
Were Aleuts forced to rely more heavily on cormorant skins as puffin and guillemot numbers were reduced by rats and fox and sea otters by men?
Because so much is known about guillemot diets during summer, a study of the winter diet would be valuable.
On June 20th the doctor and I shot one black guillemot each.
While we were making our way during the morning between some lanes I suddenly saw a black object come rushing through the air; it was a black guillemot (Uria grylle), and it circled round us several times.
On theGuillemot isle the birds have again settled, and now renew their loves.
The wonderful range of colour and marking in the eggs of the guillemot may be imputed to the inaccessible rocks on which it breeds, giving it complete protection from enemies.
All these species breed with us, but the blackguillemot only rarely.
The Guillemot makes no nest at all, but deposits its single egg on the ledges of sea-cliffs in a great many places round our coasts.
The Guillemot and Razor-Bill appear to be very much alike in the choice of their position for breeding purposes, and alike only lay one egg each; but that of the latter differs very much from the former in diversity of colouring.
All day long the steps of clients sounded on the dirty, old wooden staircase--clients for Robinson on the second, for Jones on the fourth, but none for Guillemot on the third.
He looked at her and wondered if she knew how hard it would be to him to refuse her anything: for Mr Guillemot had been fancy free, and this gracious vision, re-risen from old times, had turned his head a little.
The newcomer was impatient, for even as Guillemot opened the door, the knocker was in act to fall again.
When Constance Grant came back with the coffee, she found Mr Guillemot alone looking out of the window at the sunflowers and the hollyhocks.
Stephen Guillemot sat over his uncomfortable breakfast-table in the rooms he shared with his friend, and cursed his luck.
The eyed guillemot has now been absent for two hours, and all this time the chick has sat or stood with the other parent by him, but not under his wing, nor have I seen any further attempt on his part to get there.
Rather, I think, it is likely to be the other way, and this should make it an easier matter for a guillemot than for a negro to see, or seem to see, an absent relative.
Though the young guillemot keeps so quiet on the ledge, yet it has the full use of its limbs, and seems quite as forward and capable as are young chickens and ducklings.
Here I found some more guillemot and kittiwake ledges, and on one of these were some half a dozen of the former birds, one being a young one.
Until, therefore, the young guillemot is actually seen to leave the ledge, there can be no certainty as to the manner in which it leaves it.
An Arctic skua goes by too, and a black guillemot flies with a fish to feed its young.
If the guillemot is less poetic, he is still more interesting as a close study--or at least one can study him more closely.
But it levies toll upon the sea-birds themselves, harrying the guillemot and puffin, and making them its prey.
The guillemot flew as never in all her life had she flown before, and every known artifice of dodging she had heard of she tried, and--it all failed.
The guillemot makes no nest, merely laying a single egg on a ledge.
The ringed or bridled guillemot also breeds on the cliffs, and a number of other types of northern sea-birds are periodically noticed along these inaccessible Bempton Cliffs.
The bird differs from the Black Guillemot only in having the bases of the coverts white also.
This bird is very similar to the Black Guillemotexcept that the under surfaces of the wings are dark.
The Guillemot is very common about the Channel Islands in Autumn and winter, but is seldom seen during the summer season except near its breeding stations, which, as far as my district is concerned, are very few.
The Guillemot is included in Professor Ansted's list, but is only marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
He came to a village, and said to the people there: "I am looking for a guillemot that can talk.
He had hardly spoken, when the man who was his guide said: "Here, here is the nest of that guillemot bird.
And then they got a guillemot which had its nest close by to fly beside them, while they tried to outdistance it by rowing.
Why does the Reed-Bunting cling so tenaciously to an acre or more of marshy ground, while the Guillemot rests content with a few square feet on a particular ledge of rock?
I took the Bunting and the Guillemot as types of the two extremes.
But in the case of the Guillemot the conditions of existence are reversed: food can be had in abundance but suitable breeding stations are scarce.
On the southern and western side of the Slieve League promontory there is no real Guillemot station; only on the northern side--the quartzite in the vicinity of Tormore--are the birds to be found in large numbers.
What we have then to consider is, What is the biological value to the Guillemot of an inherited nature which, for the Bunting, has utility in relation to the supply of food for the young?
Hunger stimulates the Warbler to search the surrounding trees, and so to extend its area; but hunger takes the Guillemot down to the water, and hence the area which it primarily occupied remains unmodified.
For example, there is a well-marked variety of the Common Guillemot, the Ringed or Bridled Guillemot of science, distinguished by an unusual development of white round the eye and along the furrow behind it.
But the Guillemot is generally surrounded by other Guillemots, and the birds are often so densely packed along the ledges that there is scarcely standing room, so it seems, for all of them.
But, indirectly, its behaviour would affect the Guillemot race.
This young guillemot had doubtless been lost or left by its parents.
The guillemot makes no nest, lays but one egg, and incubation lasts about a month.
The guillemot is one of our commonest cliff-birds, and is found in greatest abundance at Flamborough Head.
Shooting guillemot rising off the water would not be much fun, but picking off single birds as they passed was good practice.
There were numbers of birds about, principally guillemot and eider duck.
Black guillemot and little auks were everywhere in thousands, and it was pretty to see rows of the latter along the ice edge.
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