Uria

2 species

The list of species of Uria genus

Uria is a genus of seabirds in the auk family known in Britain as guillemots, in most of North America as murres, and in Newfoundland and Labrador as turr. These are medium-sized birds with mainly brown or black plumage in the breeding season. They breed on the coasts of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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Common Murre

Uria aalge

The Common murre (Uria aalge) is a large auk that has a circumpolar distribution. These birds are excellent swimmers and divers (appearing to "fly" in water), but clumsy on land. They are not very agile flyers but are more maneuverable underwater....

Thick-billed murre

Uria lomvia

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...