Description
Photograph of spectacled guillemot (Cepphus carbo) in breeding plumage taken on Yamsky Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia, 2007.
Date July 2007
Source Own work
Author Eliezg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eliezg
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpectacledGuillemot.jpg

The spectacled guillemot or sooty guillemot (Cepphus carbo) is a seabird in the auk family. The breeding adult spectacled guillemot is distinctive, mostly plumaged dull sooty-black except for conspicuous white "spectacles" on the face. The spectacled guillemot's range is restricted to the northwestern Pacific Ocean: throughout the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril Islands in Russia and on the northern island of Hokkaidō in Japan. Its range overlaps with that of the closely related pigeon guillemot, though it extends further north. Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Alcidae.