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Thick-billed Murre

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Thick-billed Murre

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Also known as Uria lomvia, Brünnich's Guillemot

species of bird

Species

Least Concern

Brünnich's guillemot

Species

  1. PhylumChordata
  2. ClassAves
  3. OrderCharadriiformes
  4. FamilyAlcidae
Habitatmarine
Observations2,855

via IUCN

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Encyclopedic overview

The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). This bird is named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich. The very deeply black North Pacific subspecies Uria lomvia arra is also called Pallas' murre after its describer.

Taxonomy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thick-billed Murre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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