Bird Story Photography By Kathleen Bailey

Birds — Seabirds

Pigeon Guillemot

Cepphus columba

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Medium-sized seabird with black breeding plumage and white wing patches that breeds in borrows on costal bluffs.

  • Pigeon Guillemots singing to each other at Beachcrest

  • Mated Pigeon Guillemot pair on beach in front of Beachcrest burrow

  • Pigeon Guillemot pair courting at Beachcrest

  • Two Pigeon Guillemots fly through crashing waves in Santa Cruz, CA. to deliver a fish to feed young in burrow

  • Pigeon Guillemot waits for mate at Beachcrest burrow

  • Guillemots delivering fish to their young in Santa Cruz, CA

  • Pigeon Guillemot pair enjoying being in the water together at Beachcrest

Field notes featuring this bird