Species
Uria aalge (Common murre)
Uria aalge. Photo: (c) Анна Голубева, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It is also known as the thin-billed murre in North America. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. It spends most of its time at sea, only coming to land to breed on rocky cliff shores or islands.
Sightings
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