Guillemots: Birds of a feather stick together The Mercury Prize-nominated Guillemots are happy being an odd bunch, discovers Alexia Loundras Friday 01 September 2006 00:00 BST ...

Thousands of seabirds have been washing onto the Dutch shoreline for about a month now and no one really knows why. At least, we think it’s been a month. It’s unclear. In fact, this whole ...

BirdWatch Ireland said it is conservative in its designation and the areas identified are the most crucial ones for Irish ...

The black guillemots, sleek birds that spend their entire lives in the Arctic, used his improvised nest boxes to lay eggs and raise chicks. The birds prospered. 37 consecutive years in Arctic.

Guillemots among birds 'devastated' by outbreak of bird flu, Yorkshire study reveals. By Nathan Hyde. Senior News Reporter. Published 25th Sep 2023, 10:09 BST. Updated 25th Sep 2023, 10:10 BST.

The guillemots that have played such an important role in my research—I’ve studied them since 1972—breed at exceptionally high densities, ... Birds, too, are famously monogamous, ...

Frances Wood was sitting in her car, trying to find good reception for her cellphone, listening to an olive-sided flycatcher and talking about her favorite subject: birds.

All birds are naturally fairly buoyant -- they need superior swimming abilities to overcome this buoyancy and propel themselves downward. So it takes a good swimmer to dive more deeply.

The most recent wreck in the UK and western Europe occurred in the spring of 2014, and it killed at least 50,000 birds, mainly common guillemots and Atlantic puffins.

"We're quite cautiously optimistic about the numbers that we're seeing." Beloved bird species makes unlikely comeback on isolated island: 'They're doing well here' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A black guillemot flies with a fish in its beak on Cooper Island. Black guillemots prefer to eat small cod, but when the sea ice is too far offshore, the birds are forced to hunt for sculpin ...

Guillemots sit on the water and are particularly vulnerable to an approaching slick. Becoming coated in even a small amount of oil means a bird loses its ability to retain heat, which can lead to ...