Deep Forest Canopy
Species Radar
Auks, Murres, and Puffins

Thick-billed Murre

Uria lomvia

The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot 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.

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