Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Thick-billed_Murre/id

Scientific: Uria lomvia

Thick-Billed Mur, also known as the Brunnich’s Guillemot.

Danish:  Polarlomvie

Greenlandic : Appa

Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Uria

Length : 17.7 in (45 cm)

Weight : 26.5-52.2 oz (750-1481 g)

Description:

Medium-sized waterbird.

Black back and head, white underside.

Rather stout, pointed bill.

Throat white in non breeding plumage.

Thomas Sacher, XC112847. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/112847

References :

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018). Uria lomvia. found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=B5AA5952E13FE5F3

Gaston, Anthony J. and J. Mark Hipfner. 2000. Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

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