Black Guillemot

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Alcidae

Genus

Cepphus

eBird Code

blkgui

Subspecies (5)

• Cepphus grylle arcticus

  subarctic southern Greenland, northwestern British Isles, southern Scandinavia, and the White Sea (northwestern Russia), also southern Labrador and Newfoundland (southeastern Canada) and Gulf of Maine (northeastern USA)

• Cepphus grylle faeroeensis

  Faroe Islands

• Cepphus grylle grylle

  Baltic Sea coasts

• Cepphus grylle islandicus

  coastal Iceland

• Cepphus grylle mandtii

  high Arctic coasts from western and eastern Greenland, Jan Mayen, and Svalbard eastward through northern Siberia and northern Alaska to northern Labrador (northeastern Canada)