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Common or Thick-billed Murre
Uria [aalge or lomvia] (= Uria aalge) (Pontoppidan, E 1763)
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Charadriiformes
Family:
Alcidae
Genus:
Uria
Scientific:
Uria aalge
Classification
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:
Alcidae
Genus:
Uria
Scientific:
Uria aalge
Original description
Citation:
(Pontoppidan, E 1763)
Reference:
Danske Atlas
1 p.621 pl.26
Protonym:
Colymbus aalge
Type locality:
Iceland.
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
64C58CEE9E8FEAC2
Avibase ID:
avibase-64C58CEE
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/64C58CEE
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 176974
Geographic range:
- Uria aalge: breeds on cliffs of subarctic to temperate (locally Arctic) northern coasts, on the Pacific coast southward to Channel Islands just off southern California; winters to Virginia in Gulf Stream (western North Atlantic); to Iberian Peninsula (eastern North Atlantic); to northern Japan in western North Pacific; to northwestern Baja California (northwestern Mexico)
- Uria aalge aalge: breeds in the North Atlantic, from eastern North America, Greenland, and Iceland through the Faroe Islands and Scotland to southern Norway and the Baltic Sea
- Uria aalge hyperborea: breeds Svalbard through northern Norway and northwestern Russia eastward to Novaya Zemlya
- Uria aalge albionis: British Isles to western Iberian Peninsula; Helgoland
- Uria aalge inornata: Korea, Japan, and Kamchatka to Bering Sea and British Columbia
- Uria aalge californica: northern Washington to southern California
- Uria lomvia: breeds cliffs of high and low Arctic (locally subarctic) Holarctic coasts; winters south of pack-ice, to coastal New York and northern Japan
- Uria lomvia lomvia: Gulf of St. Lawrence to Greenland and Novaya Zemlya
- Uria lomvia arra: northern Japan and Aleutian Islands to southeastern Alaska
- Uria lomvia heckeri: Wrangel Island, Herald Island, and northern Chukotsk Peninsula
- Uria lomvia eleonorae: eastern Taymyr Peninsula to New Siberian Islands (Russia)
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Source: Clements checklist
Common or Thick-billed Murre
Catalan:
Somorgolaire comú/Brünnich
Czech:
alkoun úzkozobý/tlustozobý
Danish:
Lomvie/Polarlomvie
German:
Trottel-/Dickschnabellumme
Spanish:
Arao Común/de Brünnich
Spanish (Spain):
Arao común/de Brünnich
French:
Guillemot marmette ou G. de Brünnich
Hungarian:
Alkabukó/Vastagcsőrű lumma
Icelandic:
Langvía/stuttnefja
Japanese (romaji):
umigarasu/hashibutoumigarasu
Japanese:
ウミガラス/ハシブトウミガラス
Dutch:
Zeekoet/Kortbekzeekoet
Norwegian:
lomvi/polarlomvi
Polish:
nurzyk zwyczajny/polarny
Portuguese (Portugal):
airo-comum/airo-de-freio
Russian:
Тонкоклювая/Толстоклювая кайра
Slovak:
norec tenkozobý/hrubozobý
Serbian:
Tankokljuna njorka/debelokljuna njorka
Swedish:
sillgrissla/spetsbergsgrissla
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Common or Thick-billed Murre ( Uria [aalge or lomvia]) |
| eBird version 1.50: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 1.52: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 1.53: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 1.54: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 1.55: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2015: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2016: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2017: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2018: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2019: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2021: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2022: Common/Thick-billed Murre ( Uria aalge/lomvia) |
| eBird version 2023: Thick-billed/Common Murre ( Uria lomvia/aalge) |
| eBird version 2024: Thick-billed/Common Murre ( Uria lomvia/aalge) |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Asturian: Arau, Aráu común/de Brünnich
Bulgarian: Тънкоклюна / Дебелоклюна кайра, Тънкоклюна кайра
Breton: An erv beg hir
Catalan: Somorgolaire comú/Brünnich, Somorgollaire comú
Catalan (Balears): Pingdai becfí
Valencian: Mongeta
Czech: alkoun úzkozobý, alkoun úzkozobý/tlustozobý
Welsh: Gwylog
Danish: Lomvie, Lomvie/Polarlomvie
German: Trottel-/Dickschnabellumme, Trottellumme
Greek: Λεπτόραμφος Κέπφος/Παγόκεπφος
English: Common or Thick-billed Murre, Common/Thick-billed Murre, Thick-billed/Common Murre
English (United Kingdom): Common/Brünnich's Guillemot
English, HBW: Common/Thick-billed Murre
English (IOC): Common/Thick-billed Murre
English (United States): Common/Thick-billed Murre
Esperanto: longbeka urio
Spanish: Arao Común, Arao Común/de Brünnich
Spanish (Argentine): Gaviotín chico boreal
Spanish (Costa Rica): Charrán chico
Spanish (Spain): Arao Común/de Brünnich
Spanish (HBW): Common/Thick-billed Murre
Spanish (Mexico): Arao común
Estonian: Lõunatirk
Basque: Martin arrunta
Finnish: etelänkiisla
Faroese: Lomviga, Lomvigi/Íslandslomvigi
French: Guillemot marmette ou G. de Brünnich, Guillemot marmette ou M. de Brünnich
Irish: Foracha
Guadeloupean Creole French: Petite mauve
Gaelic: Eun Dubh an Sgadain
Galician: Arao
Manx: Stronnag
Hebrew: אוריה, אוריה מצויה/חייכנית
Hungarian: Alkabukó/Vastagcsőrű lumma, Vékonycsoru lumma
Icelandic: Langvía, Langvía/Stuttnefja
Italian: Uria
Japanese (romaji): umigarasu, umigarasu/hashibutoumigarasu
Japanese: ウミガラス, ウミガラス/ハシブトウミガラス
Japanese (Kanji): オロロン鳥
Greenlandic: Appa sigguttooq
Korean: 바다오리
Korean (Transliteration): bada-ori
Cornish: Kyddaw lagas gwyn
Scientific: Colymbus aalge, Uria [aalge or lomvia], Uria aalge, Uria aalge aalge, Uria aalge/lomvia, Uria lomvia/aalge
Lithuanian: Laibasnapis narūnėlis
Latvian: Tievknābja kaira, Tievknābja/Resnknābja kaira
Maltese: Mus Geddumu Rqiq
Dutch: Zeekoet, Zeekoet/Kortbekzeekoet
Norwegian: Lomvi, lomvi/polarlomvi
Polish: nurzyk, nurzyk zwyczajny/polarny
Pinyin: pǔtōng hǎi-yā
Portuguese: Arau-comum
Portuguese (Brazil): Trinta-reis-miudo
Portuguese (Portugal): Airo/Airo-de-freio, airo-comum/airo-de-freio
Romansh: Vriel
Romanian: Alcă nordică
Russian: Тонкоклювая кайра, Тонкоклювая/Толстоклювая кайра
Scots: Eun dubh an sgadain
Northern Sami: Skárfacielkkis
Slovak: norec tenkozobý, norec tenkozobý/hrubozobý
Slovenian: lumna, Lumna/Debelokljuna lumna
Serbian: Tankokljuna njorka/debelokljuna njorka, Tankokljuna/debelokljuna njorka
Swedish: Sillgrissla, sillgrissla/spetsbergsgrissla
Turkish: Alk/Kalın gagalı alk, yaygın alk
Ukrainian: Кайра тонкодзьоба
Chinese: 崖海鸦
Chinese (Traditional): 崖海鴉
Chinese (Taiwan, Traditional): 崖海鴉
Chinese (Taiwan): 崖海鸦
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