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Перевод: guillemot

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Тезаурус:

1. It was at Snaefellsness that I saw the bird I had hoped to find - and which was "new" to me - the Brnnich's guillemot.
2. The other member of the auks to breed in Shetland, the black guillemot, stays inshore all year, and will now have completed its moult from mottled grey and white to the smart satin black with white wing-patches.
3. The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species - guillemot, razorbill, kittiwake, fulmar, puffin, herring gull and shag - creating a deafening cacophony of noise.
4. Sure enough, we soon come up to a party of puffin and a single guillemot.
5. The numbers of little auks which winter in the tidal streams round the islands, and the occasional Brnnich's guillemot which turns up, are of northern origin, the Brnnich's breeding no nearer than Iceland or the north tip of Norway, and the little auks from the area of Spitsbergen.
6. In America it is called the thick-billed murre, and it is closely related to the common guillemot which breeds in large numbers on the cliffs of Shetland.
7. Our target route - the splendid Tudor Rose, which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge - remained unfulfilled, as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies, leaving us totally sated.
8. We saw common guillemot, Brnnich's guillemot, razorbill, black guillemot and puffin: it only needed little auk to complete all the auks on the European list!
9. This is a fantastic place for birdwatchers - puffin, falcon, raven, gannet, guillemot and cormorants, to name but a few, make their homes along the coastline and on its islands for part of the year.
10. Even our local guillemot or tystie rarely comes on land except to nest.
11. While the rest of the country was swept by autumn storms, we enjoyed two days of outstanding climbing on Guillemot and Cormorant ledges.