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The Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) is a bird of the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to southern California.
Pigeon Guillemot - Cepphus columba.
Pigeon guillemots (Cepphus columba) belong to the auk family, a group of birds that includes guillemots, puffins, auklets, and murrelets.
Pigeon Guillemots weigh about 1.1 pounds (490 grams), and measure 13.5 inches in length, with a wingspan of about 23 inches. Sexes look similar, with bright red feet, a stocky, round, body, broad, rounded wings, and a thin, straight bill.
Pigeon Guillemot: Medium-sized seabird with black body and large white wing patches interrupted by black bars. Wings are paler below. Bill is black, pointed, and long. Legs and feet are bright red. Sexes are similar.
Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba
Described by: Pallas (1811)
Alternate common name(s): Kurile Guillemot
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba columba - Adult in breeding plumage
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3. Pigeon Guillemot - note those red feet, the inside of his mouth is the same color
4. Roadrunner
5. Barn Owl ...
The Pigeon Guillemot is most similar in plumage to the Black Guillemot but their ranges only overlap in Alaska. In all plumages, the Pigeon Guillemot has dark wing linings and a dark wedge intruding into the white wing patch.
PIGEON GUILLEMOT Cepphus columba: Seattle, WA, 04 Aug
Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata: whale watching from Newport Harbor, CA 04 Jan
TUFTED PUFFIN Fratercula cirrhata: Protection Island, 06 Aug ...
I saw: Common Murres,Tufted Puffins, Horned Puffins, Pelagic Cormorants, Bald Eagles, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Bald Eagles, Belted Kingfisher, Pigeon Guillemot, Marbled Murrelet, Arctic Tern.
Pigeon Guillemot, Cepphus columba
Long-billed Murrelet, Brachyramphus perdix
Marbled Murrelet, Brachyramphus marmoratus
Kittlitz's Murrelet, Brachyramphus brevirostris
Xantus's Murrelet, Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ...
The pigeon guillemot, C. columba, is very similar to the black guillemot, and may be a geographic variety rather than a distinct species. It is found on Pacific coasts from the Bering Sea to S California and N Japan.
Black Guillemot or Tystie, Cepphus grylle
Pigeon Guillemot, Cepphus columba
Spectacled Guillemot, Cepphus carbo
As in other genera of auks, fossils of prehistoric forms of Cepphus have been found: ...
In British Columbia, prey remains found below a nest in a Sitka spruce included rhinoceros auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata), Cassin's auklets, pigeon guillemots (Cepphus columba), fork-tailed storm-petrels, and marbled murrelets [38].
 See also: Guillemot, Pigeon, Black Guillemot, Murre, Puffin
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