Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of three-toed web-footed swimming and diving birds of the auk family, Alcidæ; the murres or foolish guillemots.
- noun [lowercase] A species of the genus Lomvia; a murre or guillemot.
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For example, the CAFF Circumpolar Seabird Working Group recently produced the International Murre Conservation Strategy and Action Plan [5] that identifies management issues related to common (Uria aalge) and thick-billed (U. lomvia) murres, which experienced significant declines in several circumpolar countries throughout the twentieth century.
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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Black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and thickbilled murres (Uria lomvia) feed on the amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii.
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Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata.
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Black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and thickbilled murres (Uria lomvia) feed on the amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii.
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To examine the effect of SST changes on seabird populations at a global scale, data on population changes throughout the distribution ranges of the common guillemot or murre (Uria aalge) and Brünnich’s guillemot or thick-billed murre (U. lomvia) were examined to document how they changed in response to climate shifts, and potential relationships with SSTs [35].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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In the pelagic ecosystem off Greenland the population dynamics of calanoid copepods and to some extent krill play a key role in the food web, being a direct link to fish stocks, baleen whales, and some important seabirds, such as little auk (Alle alle) and Brünnich’s guillemot (Uria lomvia).
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland) 2009
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For example, Greenlanders hunt, among others, Brünnich’s guillemot (Uria lomvia), common eider (Somateria mollissima), king eider (Somateria spectabilis), and kittiwakes (Rissa spp.), and take the eggs of all these species.
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