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Alternative name: Brunnich's Guillemot

Photo by Sungrebe
St Paul Island, Alaska, July 2004
Uria lomvia

Identification

40-44 cm (15¾-17¼ in)

  • 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

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:

Alternative name: Brunnich's Guillemot

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

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Wikipedia

Recommended Citation

External Links

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