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The Niginganiq (nee geen ga nik) National Wildlife Area protects key bowhead whale habitat, and the Akpait (ak pa eet) and Qaqulluit (ka koo loo eet) National Wildlife Areas near Broughton Island are inhabited by seabirds including one of Canada's largest colonies of thick-billed murres and Canada's largest colony of northern fulmars.— EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
As Jonathan Balcombe points out in his wonderful book, the animal kingdom at large is a pretty sexy place, what with thick-billed murres (a kind of seabird) having their wicked way with clumps of vegetation, masturbating reptiles, lesbian hedgehogs (I kid you not), gay fruit bats, dolphins with sex toys, and bonobos being pretty much up for anything at all.— thinkBuddha.org
Midway through the day, we got a call about a rare bird being seen at St. Mary's Jetty - a thick-billed murre.— A DC Birding Blog
The quaint little thick-billed mites known as white-throated munias— A Bird Calendar for Northern India
The little birds are aware how harmless these creatures are: I have seen one of the thick-billed finches picking at one end of a piece of cactus (which is much relished by all the animals of the lower region), whilst a lizard was eating at the other end; and afterwards the little bird with the utmost indifference hopped on the back of the reptile.— The Voyage of the Beagle

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