Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Alcidae > Uria > Uria lomviaUria lomvia (Thick-billed Murre)Synonyms: Alca lomvia (homotypic); Alca spec (pro parte); Uria brunnichii Language: French 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. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ouria, a waterbird mentioned by Athenaeus. The species term lomvia is a Swedish word for an auk or diver. The English "guillemot" is from French guillemot probably derived from Guillaume, "William". "Murre" is of uncertain origins, but may imitate the call of the common guillemot. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.31286 EDGE Score: 2.2314 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 2.026 lbs (919 g) | | Birth Weight [3] | 70 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Coastal cliffs and islands, Coastal marine | | Wintering Geography [2] | Coastal U.S./Canada | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Coastal marine | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fish [4] | 70 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [4] | 10 % | | Forages - Underwater [4] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 | | Clutches / Year [3] | 1 | | Fledging [1] | 60 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 15,000,000 | | Incubation [3] | 33 days | | Mating Display [5] | Ground display | | Mating System [5] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 29 years | | Migration [6] | Intercontinental | | Wing Span [7] | 29 inches (.727 m) | | | Female Maturity [3] | 5 years 1 month | | Male Maturity [3] | 5 years 8 months |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Acadia National Park |
II |
35996 |
Maine, United States |
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Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve |
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2720489 |
Alaska, United States |
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
Ib |
12402936 |
Alaska, United States |
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park |
II |
234333 |
Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Cape Cod National Seashore |
II |
21724 |
Massachusetts, United States |
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Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve |
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864738 |
British Columbia, Canada |
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Elkhorn Slough Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
964 |
California, United States |
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Forillon National Park |
II |
61010 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Fundy National Park |
II |
52716 |
New Brunswick, Canada |
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Gateway National Recreation Area |
V |
1807 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Gros Morne National Park |
II |
476632 |
Newfoundland, Canada |
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Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve |
II |
366714 |
British Columbia, Canada |
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Ivvavik National Park |
II |
2382752 |
Yukon, Canada |
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Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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361480 |
Russia |
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Long Point Biosphere Reserve |
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100325 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve |
II |
20461 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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North-east Greenland National Park |
II |
237590314 |
Greenland |
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North-east Svalbard Nature Reserve |
Ia |
10410117 |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands |
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Ostrov Vrangelya (Wrangel Island) Zapovednik Nature Monument |
III |
180 |
Russia |
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Point Reyes National Seashore |
II |
27068 |
California, United States |
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Sikhote-Alinskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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978001 |
Russia |
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Sirmilik National Park |
II |
5475284 |
Canada |
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St Kilda |
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62932 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Terra Nova National Park |
IV |
125894 |
Newfoundland, Canada |
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Ukkusiksalik National Park |
II |
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Nunavut, Canada |
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Virginia Coast Biosphere Reserve |
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33386 |
Virginia, United States |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Akpatok Island |
Canada |
A4ii, A4iii |
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Alkhornet |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway) |
A4iii |
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Apparsuit (Kap Shackleton) and Kippaku |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4ii, A4iii, B1ii |
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Appat Appai |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4iii, B1ii |
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Bezymyannaya and Gribovaya Bays and adjoining waters |
Russia (European) |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B3 |
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Bjørnøya (Bear Island) |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway) |
A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B2 |
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Bogoslova island |
Russia (Asian) |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Cambridge Point |
Canada |
A4ii, A4iii |
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Cape Graham Moore |
Canada |
A4iii |
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Cape Lisburne |
USA |
A4ii |
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Cape Thompson |
USA |
A4ii |
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Carey islands |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
B1ii |
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Coats Island/Cape Pembroke |
Canada |
A4iii |
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Digges Sound |
Canada |
A4ii, A4iii |
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Hakluyt island |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4iii, B1ii |
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Hantzsch Island |
Canada |
A4iii |
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Hopen island |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway) |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B2 |
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Hælavíkurbjarg |
Iceland |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B3 |
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Iony island |
Russia (Asian) |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Islands and waters south and west of Upernavik town |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4iii, B1ii, B2 |
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Jan Mayen island |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway) |
A4ii, A4iii, B1ii, B2 |
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Kitsissut Avalliit (Ydre Kitsissut) |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4iii, B1ii, B3 |
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Látrabjarg |
Iceland |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B2, B3 |
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Parker Snow Bay |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4iii, B1ii |
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Prince Leopold Island |
Canada |
A4ii, A4iii |
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Reid Bay |
Canada |
A4ii, A4iii |
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Saunders island |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4ii, A4iii, B1ii |
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Sermilinnguaq |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4i, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B3 |
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South Spitsbergen National Park |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway) |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B3 |
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Southwest Bylot |
Canada |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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St. George Island |
USA |
A4i, A4ii |
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Taateraat in Evighedsfjorden |
Greenland (to Denmark) |
A4iii, B1ii, B3 |
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Tyuleniy island |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Vasiliya islands |
Russia (Asian) |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 7Anatomy and Histochemistry of Flight Muscles in a Wing-Propelled Diving Bird, the Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica, Christopher E. Kovacs and Ron A. Meyers, JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 244:109125 (2000) ♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 9An estimate of summer food consumption of six seabird species in Iceland, K. Lilliendahl and J. Solmundsson, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 54: 624630. 1997 ♦ 10Notes on fishes in Hornsund fjord area (Spitsbergen), Jan Marcin WĘSLAWSKI and Wojciech KULIŃSKI, POLISH POLAR RESEARCH (POL. POLAR RES.)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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