Thick-billed Murre
Uria lomvia
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,016
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Thick-billed murre”.