murre

noun

Etymology: Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).

   “It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s”

   “1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296, About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.”