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	Guillemot - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Guillemot, common name for three northern species of seabird of the auk family.
		Murre, common name for two species of seabirds of the auk family.
		They are known as guillemots in the United Kingdom, but in American usage that...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Guillemot.html (95 words)

	Guillemot - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Guillemot, common name for five northern species of seabird of the auk family.
		Two species, the common guillemot and the Brunnich’s guillemot, are...
		The great auk (also known as the garefowl), now extinct, was a large bird, about the size of a goose.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Guillemot.html (108 words)

	Common Guillemot
		The Common Guillemot is one of the most abundant seabirds in the temperate and colder parts of the northern hemisphere with very large populations in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the adjacent areas of the Arctic Ocean.
		Common Guillemots breed at most places around the coasts of Britain and Ireland where there is suitable cliff habitat.
		The census unit for the Common Guillemot is the individual bird.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-2898 (1307 words)

	Common Tern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Common Terns are not the most abundant tern species in Britain and Ireland, but are probably the most familiar owing to their breeding range being among the widest of seabird breeding in Britain and Ireland.
		Common Terns are absent from most of mainland Wales and SW England, and are comparatively scarce in the Northern and Western Isles where they are replaced by Arctic Terns.
		Common Terns have benefited from habitat creation by man in the form of gravel pits, tern rafts in reservoirs, islets in industrial lagoons and structures in ports, and from maintenance of habitat on reserves by control of vegetation succession and gull competition.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-2895 (1469 words)

	Guillemot - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We know that it arrives at its wonted breeding stations on its accustomed day in spring, that it remains there till, towards the end of the summer, its young are hatched and able, as they soon are, to encounter the perils of a seafaring life, when away go all, parents and progeny.
		This mystery is not peculiar to the guillemot, but is shared by all the Alcidae that inhabit the Atlantic Ocean.
		The common guillemot of both sides of the Atlantic is replaced farther northward by a species with a stouter bill, the U.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Guillemot (427 words)

	The Foolish Guillemot.--Murre.
		In the Bay of Fundy, the Foolish Guillemot is very numerous, and is known by the name of Murre, which it retains among all the eggers and fishermen of Newfoundland and Labrador, where it breeds in myriads.
		Although the Guillemots are continually harassed, their eggs being carried off as soon as they are deposited, and as long as the birds can produce them, yet they return to the same islands year after year, and, notwithstanding all the efforts of their enemies, multiply their numbers.
		The islands on which the Guillemots breed on the coast of Labrador, are flattish at top, and it is there, on the bare rock, that they deposit their eggs.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F44_G5d.html (2009 words)

	Birds of Iceland: Uria aalge, guillemot, common murre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The common guillemot can easily be confused with the Brünnich's guillemot, in fact almost indistinguishable when observing them flying over sea (see details Brünnich's guillemot).
		The guillemots breed in dense colonies of steep cliffs.
		Guillemot breeding colonies can be found on sea cliffs along the Atlantic coast of France, the British isles, further north and west to Iceland, Norway, north east to the Kola peninsula of northern Russia.
	www.iceland-nh.net /birds/data/Uria-aalge/uria_aalge.html (228 words)

	Blurtit - What is a guillemot (the bird)?
		The common guillemot (Uria aalge, common murre in North America) are among the most common seabirds in parts of the UK.
		Guillemots spend most of their lives at sea, only coming ashore to breed.
		There used to be a sailors' myth that guillemot chicks were born live at sea, because their young had so rarely been seen ashore.
	www.blurtit.com /q863585.html (215 words)

	Auk - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some species, such as the Uria guillemots nest in large colonies on cliff edges,others, like the Cepphus guillemots breed in small groups on rocky coasts, and the puffins, auklets and some murrelets nest in burrows.
		Although not to the extent of penguins, auks have to a large extent sacrficed flight, and also mobility on land, in exchange for swimming; their wings are a compromise between the best possible design for diving and the bare minimum needed for flying.
		This varies by subfamily, the Uria guillemots (including the Razorbill) and murrelets being the most efficient under the water, whereas the puffins and auklets are better adapted for flying and walking.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Auk (1053 words)

	Real Birds: Murres in Gloucester, Massachusetts
		By comparison [Common Murre] has a longer, thinner bill which is straight throughout and, due to angle at gonys, appears slightly up turned in the field.
		Common Murres loose their winter face pattern with a gradual peppering in of dark brown over the face and neck.
		Common Murres have strongly blurred spotting on the throat and chin before they molt in a dark face.
	www.virtualbirder.com /vbirder/rba/murre/id.html (1057 words)

	GUILLEMOT (Fr. guillem... - Online Information article about GUILLEMOT (Fr. guillem...
		Britain it is variously known as the frowl, kiddaw or skiddaw, langy (cf.
		toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf.
		common guillemot of both sides of the Atlantic is replaced farther northward by a species with a stouter See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/GUILLEMOT_Fr_guillemot_1_.html (903 words)

	Guillemot - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		The UK’s coasts have many stretches of sheer cliffs where seabirds breed and the guillemot is one of the most numerous birds in the great ‘seabird cities’.
		It comes to land only to nest, spending the rest of its life at sea, where it is vulnerable to oil spills.
		Guillemots are best seen at the nesting colonies, from March to the end of July.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/g/guillemot/index.asp (284 words)

	Common Gull
		Only coastal-nesting Common Gulls were counted fully during both Operation Seafarer (1969-70) and the SCR Census (1985-88) so comparison between Seabird 2000 population estimates and the previous censuses are based only on coastal colonies.
		Common Gulls nest in many inland areas of Scotland and remoter areas of England and Ireland.
		Coverage of such areas during Seabird 2000, by the relatively small number of observers involved, is difficult to assess but it is likely that all areas were covered at least once during the period of the survey.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-2883 (782 words)

	Birds in Finnmark
		Common Cranes are breeding on the larger bogs and up to 30 ind. may be seen in the fields during September.
		Whooper Swan and Common Crane are breeding near remote lakes and marshes.
		The latter is quite common in some years, but may be totally absent in other years depending on the supply of small rodents.
	home.online.no /~egnter/finnmark3.htm (5194 words)

	Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
		The pigeon-sized Guillemots dance atop the big boulders and nest in burrows among the rocks.
		Guillemots eat all kinds of animals from the sea, including crustaceans (crabs and shrimp), mollusks (clams and snails), and worms.
		Of this group, the Guillemot most favors inshore areas and is frequently along the mainland seaside.
	www.projectpuffin.org /virtual/guillemot.html (274 words)

	Iceland: Birds in Iceland
		A group of related birds which are common on the cliffs of Iceland are the auks.
		The steep perpendicular cliffs are used mostly by the common guillemot's (Uria aalge) and the closely related Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) which is a more northern close relative of the common guillemot.
		Other auks that breed at Látrabjarg are Razorbills, Common Guillemot and the Brünnich Guillemot, a high arctic species that is at its southern breeding limit in Iceland, and is one of the target birds for any serious birdwatcher visiting the country.
	iceland.vefur.is /iceland_nature/wildlife/birds.htm (1805 words)

	Towhee.net - A Yank Birds in Europe: Farne Islands, England
		Common, Arctic, Sandwich and the now very local Roseate Tern all breed as well as Common Eider, Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover.
		On the cliffs there are Northern Fulmar, Great Cormorant and Shag, Atlantic Puffin, Common Guillemot and Razorbill and there are breeding Kittiwake, Black-headed, Lesser Black-backed and Herring Gulls.
		Common Wren is a permanent resident on the islands as is Rock Pipit, Barn Swallow is a summer visitor.
	www.towhee.net /europe/farne.html (436 words)

	Common Murre--BIOLOGICAL AND ECOTOXICOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE SPECIES RESIDING IN ESTUARIES
		Common murres are highly colonial, nesting on bare rock ledges using no material for the nest except occasionally a few pebbles cemented together with excrement, which may keep the egg from rolling (Terres, 1980).
		Livers from common murres found in a large die-off in the autumn of 1969 in the Irish Sea region were analyzed for PCB contamination (Parslow and Jeffries, 1973).
		Pooled fat extracts and droppings from common murres collected from the cliffs of the island of Stora Karlso in the Baltic Sea during breeding season were analysed for the presence of phenolic PCB metabolites (Jansson et al., 1975).
	www.pwrc.usgs.gov /bioeco/cmurre.htm (4440 words)

	Unconventional ventral attachment of time-depth recorders as a new method for investigating time budget and diving ...
		The various activities of common guillemots, and predictions for changes in various parameters according to activity.
		Common guillemots are known to be sensitive to disturbance,
		Davis, B. and Guderley, H. Biochemical adaptations to diving in the common murre, Uria aalge, and the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica.
	jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/full/206/11/1929 (5831 words)

	Auk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Auks live on the open sea and only go ashore for breeding, although some species, like the Common Guillemot, spend a great part of the year defending their nesting spot from others.
		Some species, such as the Uria guillemots, nest in large colonies on cliff edges; others, like the Cepphus guillemots, breed in small groups on rocky coasts; and the puffins, auklets and some murrelets nest in burrows.
		Although not to the extent of penguins, auks have to a large extent sacrificed flight, and also mobility on land, in exchange for swimming; their wings are a compromise between the best possible design for diving and the bare minimum needed for flying.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auk (1413 words)

	Guillemot marmette / Common Murre : Catalogue / Catalog : John James Audubon : The Birds of America : Musée de ...
		Le guillemot marmette est un oiseau marin qui a pour habitat les falaises de la Côte-Nord, de l’Île d’Anticosti, de la côte gaspésienne, des Îles-de-la-Madeleine et du Nouveau-Brunswick.
		The Common Murre is a sea bird whose habitat is the cliffs of the Côte-Nord region, the Île d’Anticosti, the coast of the Gaspésie and Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, and New Brunswick.
		It is common also on the American East and West Coasts.
	www.mcq.org /audubon/catalogue/audubon_218.html (216 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Ancient murrelet is the smallest seabird belonging to the family of ancient murrelet, which includes common murre, rhinoceros auklet and spectacled guillemot...
		The Common Murre is a medium sized bird weighing approximately 900g.
		A pigeon-sized water bird, the pigeon guillemot dives using its wings for paddles and its feet for rudders...
	www.fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/alcidae.html (1724 words)

	Drilling threatens common guillemot
		The group demands that oil searches can no longer take place within a 100 kilometer (62 miles) of the mountainous rock ledges where the bird colonies live, Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reports.
		The Norwegian government plans to allow petroleum exploration within 35 kilometers (21 miles) of the guillemot's habitat.
		The guillemot still nests in Finnmark but the WWF fears that the already drastically reduced population can be wiped out by the recent announcement that the oil industry will encroach further.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article795708.ece?service=print (148 words)

	Seabirds - Birding Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The long Norwegian coast is home to millions of seabirds, the largest concentrations of auks and kittiwakes are found in the northern half of the country, with the exception of the famous bird island Runde near Ålesund.
		The Common Eider is a common breeder along the entire coastline.
		They are actually quite common along the entire west coast, and on calm night it is usually easy to tape-lure Storm Petrels into some strategically placed mist-nets for ringing.
	www.birdingnorway.no /habitats/seabirds.htm (472 words)

	Guillemot de Troïl - Uria aalge - Common Guillemot
		Guillemot de Troïl - Uria aalge - Common Guillemot
		Le guillemot de Troïl est le plus grand des 3 Alcidés se reproduisant sur les côtes françaises.
		Pour pêcher, les bandes de guillemots plongent allègrement en quête de bancs de poissons.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/charadriiformes/guillemot.de.troil.html (845 words)

	Inter Research » MEPS » v224 » p305-309
		ABSTRACT: Chick fledging body mass of the common guillemots Uria aalge breeding at Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea between 1989 and 2000 were studied in order to reveal any effects of an increased abundance of their main prey species, sprat Sprattus sprattus.
		The deteriorated condition of the prey is most probably responsible for the observed decreased fledging body mass in guillemot chicks.
		It is clearly indicated that changes in the sprat population, as a consequence of changes in the Baltic Sea, have affected common guillemot fledging body mass.
	www.int-res.com /abstracts/meps/v224/p305-309 (250 words)

	June-Aug99
		Goshawk 1, Rough-legged Buzzard 1, Waterrail 1, Woodcock 1, Fieldfare 160, Common Treecreeper 1.
		Common Buzzard 25 attempted to migrate is unusually late, Waxwing 13, Blue Tit 1200 attempted to migrate is a new record for Skagen.
		Honey Buzzard 35, Common Buzzard 20, Osprey 2, Kestrel 10.
	home5.inet.tele.dk /ec-skaw/june-aug99.htm (2734 words)

	Birdlife on Iceland
		Shags are more common in the western region (Snaefellssness and Breiðafjörður) while gannets frequent the south-western coasts of Iceland.
		The Great Skua is most common along the south coast - their main breeding grounds are the barren sand plains along the south coast (Skeiðarársandur), while the Arctic Skua frequents many coastal regions.
		On Iceland common waterfowl species belong either to the family of the ducks (including swans and geese) or to the grebe family and the closely related diver family (in America known as loons).
	www.iceland-nh.net /birds/background_birds.html (1651 words)

	PCB and DDT in Guillemot eggs, Baltic proper - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
		To assess the current contaminant pressure on the common guillemot (Uria aalge) living there, the amount of DDT and PCB in Guillemot eggs were monitored.
		The results, as shown on graph, demonstrates a dramatic decrease of these toxins in Guillemot eggs since 1972.
		For reference to any printed material, please see the details of the collection or collections this graphic is published in, which may be published in paper format.
	maps.grida.no /go/graphic/pcb_and_ddt_in_guillemot_eggs_baltic_proper1 (334 words)

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