Auks (Alcidae) - HBW 3
Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)
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
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Flock of birds swimming, preening and resting on the water or the ice, close to the colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 2 July 2008 1 year ago 23 sec 3.5 -
On cliff faces at breeding colony on Yankicho Island Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (ssp arra)
Greg Baker 14 June 2009 15 weeks ago 28 sec 3.3 -
At the colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 2 July 2008 1 year ago 20 sec 3 -
A breeding colony on the cliffs Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard Islands
Steven Edwards 12 August 2003 5 years ago 31 sec 3
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Close-up of an adult swimming nearby the colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 25 weeks ago 4.5 -
An adult swimming nearby the colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 25 weeks ago 4.3 -
An adult swimming nearby the colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 25 weeks ago 3.7 -
Some birds resting on ice nearby the colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 25 weeks ago 3.5 -
Breeding adult Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands
fleviez 30 June 2005 1 year ago 3.5 -
Alkefjellet colony. Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands (ssp lomvia)
Christophe Gouraud 4 July 2008 25 weeks ago 2
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