The common murre, also called the common guillemot or foolish guillemot, (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic...

German orthithologist Ernst Hartert. The thick-billed murre is now placed together with the common murre in the genus Uria that was introduced in 1760 by the...

introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the common murre (Uria aalge) as the type species. The genus name is from Ancient Greek...

family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets. The family contains 25 extant...

the tribe Alcini, which also includes the common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge), the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia), and the dovekie (Alle alle)...

kingfisher Common linnet Common loon Common merganser Common miner Common moorhen Common murre Common myna Common newtonia Common nighthawk Common nightingale...

colonies. One well-studied case of this phenomenon has been the effect on common murre colonies on islands in Alaska, where foxes were introduced for fur farming...

Among species that nest in large numbers on bird cliffs are common murre, thick-billed murre, razorbill, kittiwake, little auk and Atlantic puffin. The...

common ancestor, a bird probably similar to a stout Xantus's murrelet, had spread to the coasts of the Atlantic. Apparently, by that time, the murres...

supplies and Russian sealers, who were the first to collect the abundant common murre eggs. When control of California passed from Mexico to the United States...