A polar bear mother and nearly grown young almost get a brooding guillemot. The parent bird survived and was back on the nest the next day.
Category: 2014 Field Season
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The Black Guillemot
The Black Guillemot has a number of life history characteristics that make it an ideal monitor of changes in the marine environment in general and the Arctic in particular. Guillemots, of which there are three species, belong to the seabird family known as auks, or alcids. The most abundant seabird family in the Northern Hemisphere,...