Thick-billed Murre

Uria lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)

964 gWeight

The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae).

Busiest months: June · Most records: United States, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Norway

Least Concern

Where and when it's recorded

Thick-billed Murre has been recorded at 112 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 12 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

St. Paul IslandUnited States5,638 records
GambellUnited States4,126 records
Vardø – HornøyaNorway698 records

More places

Látrabjarg – BjargtangarIceland508 records
Barnegat Lighthouse SPUnited States203 records
AlkefjelletSvalbard & Jan Mayen183 records
LongyearbyenSvalbard & Jan Mayen181 records
Ny-ÅlesundSvalbard & Jan Mayen176 records
Halibut Point SPUnited States168 records
Nordvest-Spitsbergen NP – Fjortende JulibreenSvalbard & Jan Mayen155 records

Countries and regions with the most records

United States Svalbard & Jan Mayen Norway Iceland Canada Japan Russia St. Pierre & Miquelon

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

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.

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Questions

How big is the Thick-billed Murre?

The Thick-billed Murre weighs around 964 g.

Where does the Thick-billed Murre live?

Its breeding range: North America, Palearctic: Holarctic, high and low Arctic (locally temperate) coasts. It is most often recorded in United States, Svalbard & Jan Mayen and Norway.