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  • proper noun A taxonomic species within the genus Uria — the thick-billed murre.

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  • Birds visiting the area include Brent goose Branta bernicla, common eider Somateria mollissima, red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator, pomarine skua Stercorarius pomarinus, Arctic skua Stercorarius parasiticus, Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea and Brünnich's guillemot Uria lomvia.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

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