Genus
Uria (Murres)
Uria aalge. Photo: (c) Анна Голубева, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Uria is a genus of seabirds in the auk family known in Britain as guillemots, in most of North America as murres, and in Newfoundland and Labrador as turr. These are medium-sized birds with mainly brown or black plumage in the breeding season. They breed on the coasts of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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