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    (c) Mike Baird, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) BJ Stacey, all rights reserved

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    (c) Liam Singh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Chris Evers, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Donna Pomeroy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) BJ Stacey, all rights reserved

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Pigeon Guillemot

Cepphus columba

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About

The pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba) is a species of bird in the auk family, Alcidae. One of three species in the genus Cepphus, it is most closely related to the spectacled guillemot. There are five subspecies of the pigeon guillemot; all subspecies, when in breeding plumage, are dark brown with a black iridescent sheen, with a distinctive wing patch broken by a brown-black wedge. Its non-breeding plumage has a mottled grey and black upperparts and white...

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