New research from Dartmouth shows potentially harmful levels of mercury in black guillemot chicks, contributing to scientists’ understanding of mercury exposure for seabirds.

New research from Dartmouth shows one type of seabird in the Gulf of Maine, the black guillemot, has concentrations of mercury in their feathers that are above levels known to have effects on ...

The black guillemot colony was rapidly growing, increasing from a couple of dozen nests to 200 in a decade. There might have been more, but Divoky built only 200 wooden nesting boxes.

The common gull, Arctic tern and great skua are among the seabirds now considered most at risk in Britain, but there is better news about the European shag and black guillemot. The birds face a ...

However, between 2010 and 2023, three species had “stabilised”, while black-legged kittiwake, European shag and common guillemot populations increased in the sites surveyed. Advertisement Hide Ad ...

the great black-backed gull ... with the shag moving from the red list to the amber and the black guillemot from the amber to the green. But of the 245 birds regularly seen in the UK, ...