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Alternative name: Brunnich's Guillemot

Photo by Sungrebe
St Paul Island, Alaska, July 2004

Uria lomvia

[edit] Identification

40-44cm

• Black head, neck, back and wings
• White underparts
• Long and pointed bill
• Small rounded black tail
  

Photo by NIGHTJAR1
Spitzbergen, Norway, June 2007

Non-breeding: face shows more white

[edit] Distribution

Arctic areas of Europe, Asia and North America:
North America: Canada, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New England, Alaska, Aleutian Islands
Europe: Iceland, Scandinavia, Norway, Finland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Baltic
Asia: Russia, Siberia, Japan

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 4 subspecies^[1]:

• U. l. lomvia:

• Gulf of St. Lawrence to Greenland and Novaya Zemlya

• U. l. eleonorae:

• Eastern Taymyr Peninsula to New Siberian Islands (Russia)

• U. l. heckeri:

• Wrangel Island, Herald Island and northern Chukotsk Peninsula

• U. l. arra:

• Northern Japan and Aleutian Islands to south-eastern Alaska

Alternative name: Brunnich's Guillemot

Winter plumage
Photo by rb_stern
Lunenburg, NS, Canada, February 2005

[edit] Habitat

Pelagic. Breeds on rocky seaside cliffs.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

Colonial breeders on cliff edges. The lay a single egg.

[edit] Diet

They find their food underwater, in deep dives. The diet includes invertebrates and occasionally fish; the chicks are fed fish, squid, crustaceans and other small invertebrates.

[edit] Vocalisation

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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