Seabirds
Thick-billed Murres
Uria lomvia
Also known as
Brünnich’s Guillemont
Distribution
Circumpolar, Arctic and Subarctic
Écosystèmes/habitats
Nest on coastal cliffs; feed in the ocean
Feeding Habits
Active (diving) predator
Conservation Status
Not at Risk
Taxonomie
Order Charadriiforms (sandpipers, plovers, gulls, auks); Family Alcidae (auks)
Partager
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google+Thick-billed murres are a marine bird and the largest living member of the auk family. One of the most common Arctic bird species, these murres are deep-diving predators and regularly dive to depths of 100 metres in pursuit of prey such as fish, squid, crustaceans, polychaetes and molluscs. Incredibly, they are capable of diving deeper than 200 metres and staying submerged for more than three minutes! Thick-billed murres live in large groups called colonies, which sometimes can reach sizes of more than one million adult birds. They can be found in these dense aggregations during the breeding season on coastal cliffs. In Canada, populations of thick-billed murres can be found in British Columbia, Hudson’s Bay and all along the east coast.
- American Lobster
- American Plaice
- Arctic Char
- Atlantic Cod
- Atlantic Herring
- Atlantic Mackerel
- Atlantic Puffin
- Atlantic Walrus
- Atlantic Wolffish
- Beluga Whale
- Blue Shark
- Bowhead Whale
- Bubblegum Coral
- Canary Rockfish
- Capelin
- Chinook Salmon
- Dungeness Crab
- Eulachon
- Fin Whale
- Fjords
- Giant Pacific Octopus
- Great White Shark
- Green Sea Turtle
- Greenland Halibut/Turbot
- Greenland Shark
- Humboldt Squid
- Humpback Whale
- Kelp Forests
- Leatherback Sea Turtle
- Lingcod
- Lion's Mane Jellyfish
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Lophelia Coral
- Narwhal
- North Atlantic Right Whale
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Shrimp
- Orca
- Pacific Herring
- Pilot Whale
- Polar Bear
- Pom-Pom Anemones
- Redfish (Acadian & Deepwater)
- Sea Otter
- Sea Pens
- Sea Strawberry
- Seamounts
- Snow crab
- Sockeye Salmon
- Spiny Dogfish
- Thick-billed Murres
- Thorny Skate
- Tufted Puffin
- Yelloweye Rockfish