thick-billed

• “Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.”

  Where Birds Rule the Earth

• “As the last parrot species native to the United States, thick-billed parrots are endangered.”

  Simon & Schuster: ZooBorns

• “Hydrographic features, cetaceans and the foraging of thick-billed murres and other marine birds in the northwestern Barents Sea.”

  Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota

• “Differential responses of common and thick-billed murres to a crash in the capelin stock in the southern Barents Sea.”

  Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota

• “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

• “For example, the number of thick-billed murre breeding colonies has been reduced from 48 to 23 during the last 30 years on the west coast of Greenland [53].”

  Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic

• “Common eiders, thick-billed murre, and black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) are the most commonly harvested seabird species in arctic Canada, and are utilized by indigenous people wherever they are available [33].”

  Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic

• “The most intense consumptive use of seabirds in Canada occurs in Newfoundland and Labrador, where thick-billed and common murres are harvested based on a set hunting season and bag limits.”

  Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic

• “Additional immigrants from the north during the winter include many birds, such as thick-billed murre, northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), and little auk.”

  Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada

• “There are three endemic subspecies: Tristan thrush Nesochicla eremita (850 pairs), thick-billed bunting Nesospiza wilkinsi (VU, 2,000 pairs) and Tristan bunting Nesospiza acunhae (VU, 10,000 pairs).”

  Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom

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