Common Murre

Uria aalge

Summary 2

The Common Murre or Common Guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It is also known as the Thin-billed Murre in North America. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North-Atlantic and North Pacific. It spends most of its time at sea, only coming to land to breed on rocky cliff shores or islands.

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  1. (c) Keith Marshall, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/69877992@N00/371799287
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uria_aalge

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