Common murre Uria aalge
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Length: 14 inches
Sexes similar
Immature like basic-plumaged adult but often with smaller bill
Large alcid that dives for food from water surface
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Common Murre
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Common Murre
Relatives in same Genus
Thick-billed Murre (U. lomvia) ...
The Common Murre (Uria aalge) is a species which occurs on the northern coasts of the United States, both east and west. It is also found in the oceans all around Alaska as well as off the eastern coast of Canada.
Common Murres nest in large, dense colonies on rocky offshore ocean islands, often in the company of numerous other nesting birds. Murres are usually found on the upper parts of sea cliffs, below puffins and gulls but above kittiwakes and guillemots.
Common Murre & Razorbill
Razorbill (left) & Common Murre, Alca torda & Uria aalge
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Common Murre: Medium-sized seabird with brown-black upperparts and throat, white underparts, and long dark bill. Tail is short. Sexes are similar. Winter adult has white throat, white side of face, and faintly mottled flanks.
Common Murre
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan)
Status Common in winter. Formerly bred. Bryant (1857) found them nesting off Yarmouth on Gannet Rock and Green Island.
Common Murre Uria aalge inornata - Adults in breeding plumage
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Common Murre
Both Murres are black and white and hard to distinguish from a Razorbill at a distance. Unlike the Razorbill, the Common Murre has a thin ponted bill with no white on the bill.
10-11. Common Murre in Racoon Strait just off Tiburon
12. Snowy Egret, Great Egret, Snowy Egret ...
Common Murres breed in colonies at high densities, nesting pairs may be in bodily contact with their neighbours. They make no nest, their single egg is incubated on bare rock. Eggs hatch after ~30 days incubation.
Guillemot, Common aka Guillemot aka Common Murre Uria aalge Found: north parts of North America, Europe
Photographed by: 1 - 7) Dick Daniels in Scotland 8) Tom Curtis
4) Brindled variant 8) Chick
Genus Fratercula ...
Common Murre Uria aalge: Protection Island, WA, 06 Aug
Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia: Jodrey State Fish Pier, Gloucester Harbor, MA, 29 Jan
Razorbill Alca torda: Andrew's Point, Cape Ann, MA, 29 Jan ...
The common murre, Uria aalge, and the Brunnich's murre are found in the North Atlantic; the California murre is found in the Pacific. Murres are among the largest of the living members of the family.
THE FOOLISH GUILLEMOT.--MURRE.
[Common Murre.]
URIA TROILE, Linn.
[Uria aalge.] ...
I saw THOUSANDS at one time during a wildlife cruise off the coast of Seward, Alaska in the summer of 2006. Great experience to see all of these guys nesting on cliffs on offshore islands, along with Horned and Tufted Puffins, and Common Murres.
Uria aalge - Common Murre (photo)
Uria lomvia - Thick-billed Murre
Alca
Alca torda - Razorbill
Cepphus
Cepphus grylle - Black Guillemot
Cepphus carbo - Spectackled Guillemot
Pinguinus ...
Winter diets of common murres and marbled murrelets in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Condor. 89: 426-430. [23642] 24. Sealy, Spencer G.; Carter, Harry R. 1984.
 See also: Murre, Guillemot, Razorbill, Puffin, Gannet
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