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Birds seen on sea-cliffs and rocky islands in the UK: Guillemot |
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ARKive - Guillemot, Uria aalge http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Uria_aalge/more_info.html Check out the life-style of sea bird with massive seventy-two cm wing span. Read how man is now less of a threat, the bird’s conservation status, range, and habitat. |
| ARKive - Guillemot, Uria aalge http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Uria_aalge/more_still_images.html Peruse this visual essay on the life of a guillemot. Peruse twenty-five colour images covering eggs, chicks, individual adults, and their colonies. |
| Avibase - Common Guillemot,
Uria aalge http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=summary&lang= EN&id=26D1D67EA00751F4&ts=1121678170142/ Publishes lengthy list of alternative names for the common guillemot including order, family, scientific, and protonym. Also find translations into twelve languages. |
| Birdcare.com - Guillemot
(Common Guillemot), Uria aalge
http://www.birdcare.com/bin/showsonb?guillemot/ Find out about this species that's recovering after being attacked by man over the centuries. Supplies numbers for UK and Europe, and future prospects. |
| Birds of Britain - Guillemots
go to Sea http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/features/mao-jun-00.htm Investigate humorous observations of common guillemot chicks taking their first flight and swim. Also compares the event with their near cousins, Brünnich’s Guillemots. |
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BTO - (Common) Guillemot, Uria
aalge http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob6340.htm Research the guillemot’s family life with this colour image of family on rocky foreshore. Appraise fact file covering population, distribution, breeding and survival. |
| JNCC: Seabird 2000 - Common
Guillemot, Uria aalge http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2898/ Review report from UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee regarding guillemot population around Britain’s coast. See survey coverage, methods, and links to more data. |
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Royal Society for Protection of
Birds - Guillemot, Uria aalge http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/g/guillemot/ Offers details about sea bird that can’t be bothered to make a nest. See illustration of one in winter plumage, plus map of UK showing distribution. |
| RSPB: Scotland - Disastrous
Year for Scotland’s Seabirds
http://www.rspb.org.uk/scotland/action/disaster/ Scrutinize article from Royal Society for the Protection of Birds that explains how near eradication of small fish impacted on guillemots on islands north of Scotland . |
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Young People’s Trust for the Environment - Guillemot,
Uria aalge |
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Birds on sea-cliffs & islands in the UK
