Thick-billed Murre

The Thick-billed Murre or BrĂ¼nnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). This bird is named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane BrĂ¼nnich. The very deeply black North Pacific subspecies Uria lomvia arra is also called Pallas' Murre after its describer.


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