Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle

The Black Guillemot’s (Cepphus grylle) breeding habitat is rocky shores, cliffs and islands on northern Atlantic coasts in eastern North America as far south as Maine, and in western Europe as far south as Ireland.They are one of the few birds to breed on Surtsey, Iceland a new volcanic island. In the UK it is fairly common breeding bird in western and northern Scotland and Northern Ireland. In the rest of Great Britain they only breed at St. Bees Head in Cumbria, the Isle of Man and on east Anglesey in north Wales.

Factsheet: Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle 

Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)

Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)

Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)