Robust crow-sized seabird that is black above and white below. A thin white line marks its face and thick black bill during the breeding season.
Nonbreeding birds have a white throat and cheek that extends up behind the eye.
Robust crow-sized seabird that rapidly flaps its narrow and pointed wings. Often seen flying in small groups.
Breeds in colonies on rocky coastlines.
Breeding birds have a thin white line on their thick black bill and another thin line extending from the bill to the eye.
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A thickset seabird with narrow wings, rather long tail, short neck, large head, and unique, thick, broad-tipped “razor” bill. Immatures have smaller bills than adults.
Larger than a Black Guillemot, smaller than a Common Eider.
crow-sizedOrnithologists recognize two subspecies that differ in size: the larger torda nests from North America east to northwestern Russia, and the smaller islandica of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the British Isles.
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