Brünnich’s Guillemot Uria lomvia [Linnaeus, 1758] |
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Page updated:16-January-2013 |
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Order:
Charadriiformes
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Family: Alcidae |
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BTO Codes:
TZ, BRUGU
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EURING No: 6350 | |
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Number in Britain:
1 record/year
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Conservation Status:
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Status in UK:
(A) Accidental
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Subspecies:
?lomvia recorded in Britain (of 4 subsp. in the world)
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Length:
41 cm
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Wingspan: 69 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 930 g
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Scientific name from:
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Gr.: ouriaa waterbird mentioned by Athenaeus and Swedish: lomvia=auk or diver |
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World Distribution:
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BREEDS: Greenland, Iceland, n Russia, n North America, WINTERS: at sea in n Atlantic & n Pacific Oceans |
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Habitat:
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Coastal cliffs, otherwise pelagic |
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Diet:
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Fish, some invertebrates |
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TitBit:
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This is one of the deepest underwater divers of all birds, regularly descending to depths of more than 100 m, and occasionally below 200 m; it can remain submerged for more than three minutes. |
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Records and Distribution |
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First Record:
Lothian, 1908
(Palmer. P 2000. First for Britain & Ireland, Arlequin Press. [502.74 PAL])
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Total Number of Records (1950-2007):
36
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Most Likely to Occur in:
October to April
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Most Recent County Records:
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Scotland:
Argyll
(1969),
Highland
(1996),
Lothian
(1994),
Northeast
(2007),
Outer Hebrides
(1992),
Orkney
(2001),
Shetland
(2007),
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North-east England:
Northumberland
(1977),
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North-west England:
Lancashire
(1960),
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Information provided by BirdGuides and BBRC |
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Other Names |
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| Thick-billed Murre | |
| Gaelic: | Welsh: |
| Danish: Polarlomvie | Dutch: Kortsnavelzeekoet |
| Finnish: Pohjankiisla | French: Guillemot de Brünnich |
| German: Dickschnabellumme | Hungarian: Vastagcsoru lumma |
| Icelandic: Stuttnefja | Irish: Foracha Brünnich |
| Italian: Uria di Brünnich | Norwegian: Polarlomvi |
| Polish: Nurzyk polarny | Portuguese: Arau de Brünnich |
| Spanish: Arao de Brünnich | Swedish: Spetsbergsgrissla |
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For More Information... |
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Books and Monographs:
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| Gaston, A. 1998 The auks Oxford University Press, Oxford [598.618 GAS] | |
| Nettleship, D. & Birkhead, T.R. 1985 The atlantic Alcidae Academic Press, London [598.618 NET] | |
| Tuck, L.M. 1960 The Murres, a study of the genus Uria Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa [598.618 TUC] | |
| See Also: | |
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| Wikipedia entry | |
| BirdLife species page | |
| Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides | |
| All About Birds (from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) | |
| Details from the Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter | |
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