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Black GuillemotBlack Guillemot is a bird the size of a pigeon, that breeds from Arctic Alaska and Canada, south along the Atlantic Coast to Maine.

It winters south to the Bering Sea on the Pacific Ocean side of North America and occasionally visits Long Island, N.Y.,U.S., on the Atlantic Ocean of North America and southern Quebec, Canada and Lake Ontario. It also winters in northern Europe, Scandinavia and Alaska.

The Black Guillemot is appropriately named in summer because it is all black with large white wing patches and bright red feet. In winter the black changes to mostly white providing camouflage against the backdrop of the snow.

These hardy birds eat marine worms, crustaceans, mollusks and small fish.

Referenced from National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds (Eastern Region) and A Field Guide to the Birds (Eastern Land and Water Birds) by Roger Tory Peterson

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