Auks (Alcidae)
Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia) - HBW 3, p. 710
French: Guillemot de Brünnich
German: Dickschnabellumme
Spanish: Arao de Brünnich
Other common names: Brünnich's Guillemot/Murre
Taxonomy: Alca Lomvia Linnaeus, 1758, Greenland.
Considerable geographical variation through circumpolar range; biometric variation in general quasi-clinal, but high colour variation more difficult to interpret. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758) - NE Canada S to Gulf of St Lawrence, and Greenland E to Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya.
- eleonorae Portenko, 1937 - E Taymyr Peninsula E to New Siberian Is.
- heckeri Portenko, 1944 - Wrangel I, Herald I and N Chukotskiy Peninsula.
- arra (Pallas, 1811) - N Pacific, from NW Alaska S to N Japan, Aleutians and SE Alaska.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A close-up of some bird Locality Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark County, Norway
Javier Ortas 21 June 2010 1 year ago 36 sec 4 -
A group of birds with common murre.A closeview of some bird Locality Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark County, Norway
Javier Ortas 20 June 2010 1 year ago 36 sec 4 -
Birds on cliffs with Black-legged Kittiwakes. Locality Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp arra)
Josep del Hoyo 26 June 2009 1 year ago 28 sec 3.6 -
Flock of birds swimming, preening and resting on the water or the ice, close to the colony. Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 2 July 2008 3 years ago 23 sec 3.5 -
On cliff faces at breeding colony on Yankicho Island Locality Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp arra)
Greg Baker 14 June 2009 2 years ago 28 sec 3.3 -
At the colony. Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 2 July 2008 3 years ago 20 sec 3
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Close-up of an adult swimming nearby the colony.
Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 2 years ago 4.5 -
An adult swimming nearby the colony.
Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 2 years ago 4.2 -
An injured breeder attacked by a Glaucous Gull.
Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 21 July 2011 24 weeks ago 4 -
4 breeding birds resting on an ice floe.
Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 13 July 2010 1 year ago 4 -
Close-up of a breeding bird swimming.
Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 13 July 2010 1 year ago 3.9 -
Breeder on the water.
Locality Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 31 July 2011 24 weeks ago 3.8
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