Summary ⁷

The Black Guillemot or Tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized alcid.

Range description ⁸

The Black Guillemot can be found throughout Arctic waters on the northern coasts of Russia, Alaska (USA), Canada and Norway, in the Atlantic Ocean off Greenland (to Denmark), eastern Canada as far south as the United Kingdom including the North and Baltic Sea (del Hoyo et al. 1996).

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7. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepphus_grylle
8. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34366198

More Info

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