#0930 · 🐦 birds

Thick-billed Murre

🇳🇱 Kortbekzeekoet ·Uria lomvia

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

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...

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,400iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).