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Cepphus grylle (Black Guillemot)

Synonyms: Alca grylle (homotypic); Alca spec (pro parte)
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized alcid. The genus name Cepphus is from Ancient Greek kepphos, a pale waterbird mentioned by Greek authors including Aristotle. The species name grylle was the local dialect name for this bird in Gotland at the time of Linnaeus's visit there in 1741. The English word "guillemot" is from French guillemot probably derived from Guillaume, "William". There are five listed subspecies of the black guillemot: These birds often overwinter in their breeding areas, moving to open waters if necessary, but usually not migrating very far south.
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Infraspecies

Cepphus grylle arcticus
Cepphus grylle faeroeensis
Cepphus grylle grylle
Cepphus grylle islandicus
Cepphus grylle mandtii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.62204
EDGE Score: 2.26406
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  2
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [6]  40 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  750,000
Incubation [4]  25 days
Mating System [7]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  26 years
Migration [1]  Intracontinental
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Wing Span [8]  22 inches (.55 m)
Adult Weight [2]  378 grams
Birth Weight [4]  33 grams
Breeding Habitat [3]  Coastal cliffs and islands, Coastal marine
Wintering Geography [3]  Atlantic Coast
Wintering Habitat [3]  Coastal marine
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [5]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  40 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  3 years
Male Maturity [4]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[9]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Alcataenia campylacantha[13]
Capillaria contorta[13]
Ceratophyllus garei[14]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 8British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Notes on fishes in Hornsund fjord area (Spitsbergen), Jan Marcin WĘSLAWSKI and Wojciech KULIŃSKI, POLISH POLAR RESEARCH (POL. POLAR RES.) Vol. 10 No. 2 p. 241-250 (1989)
♦ 11"Diet and foraging ecology of Black Guillemots in northeastern Hudson Bay", D. K. Cairns, Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1987, 65(5): 1257-1263
♦ 12The role of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the foodweb of the Barents Sea, A. V. Dolgov, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 59: 1034–1045. 2002
♦ 13Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 14International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0