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Photo by Sungrebe
St Paul Island, Alaska, July 2004

Alternative name: Brunnich's Guillemot

Uria lomvia

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

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

Taxonomy

Subspecies[1]

There are 4 subspecies:

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

Habitat

Pelagic. Breeds on rocky seaside cliffs.

Behaviour

Breeding

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

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.

Vocalisation

<flashmp3>Uria lomvia (song).mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Avibase
  3. Wikipedia

Recommended Citation

External Links


This link searches for videos titled Brunnich's Guillemot

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