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Species

Common Murre

Uria aalge

Common murres, also known as common guillemots, are a member of the auk family. Like most auks, they spend most of their life at sea, coming only to land to breed on tightly populated cliffs along the shoreline.

They live in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, and here in Norway they're found on bird cliffs from Runde on the west coast until Hornøya in the north.

Common murres and thick-billed murres are some of my all-time favorite birds.

Also known as

  • Uria aalge (Scientific)
  • Common Murre (English)
  • Lomvi (Norwegian)
  • Zeekoet (Dutch)

17 photos

1 blogs

2 collections

Classification

  • Class: Aves (Birds)
  • Order: Charadriiformes (Shorebirds)
  • Family: Alcidae (Auks)
  • Genus: Uria (Murres)
  • Species: Uria aalge (Common Murre)

Conservation status

Global: Least Concern

Norway: Critically Endangered

Photos

Common murre silhouette (chest upwards), with a blue sea full of blurry bokeh in the background.
Group of ca 15 common murres standing closely together on a sunny day. The picture is taken with a telezoom lens, showing them all chest up, focused on two cuddling murres in the middle.
Portrait of a bridled common murre standing in front of a teal/blue blurry background (out of focus ocean), photographed from the chest up. The belly is white, the back and head are very dark brown (but look black), medium-sized sharp gray beak. Around its eye is a white circle and line, resembling glsses. The bird eye is in focus, along with tiny water droplets on top of the head. Light cimes from the left behind of the murre.
Group of 10-15 murres tightly standing together on the side of a cliff, with the ocean in the background. The two murres in the middle are mounting eachother.
Portrait of a bridled common murre. In the foreground there's a green out of focus mossy rock, the background is the out of focus ocean.
Portrait of a common murre. In the foreground there's a muddy hill, and behind the main murre there's another one that's out of focus.

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Collections (2)

Finnmark

57 pictures

1 blogs

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Hornøya

26 pictures

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Blogs (1)

About the beautiful bridled common murres.

3. September 2024

  • Research
  • Fun facts

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