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Common Murre

Uria aalge ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: ALCIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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An abundant, penguin-like bird of the cooler northern oceans, the Common Murre nests along rocky cliffs and spends its winter at sea.

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Calls

  • Calls at colony
    Recorded by Martha J. Fischer
    Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada July 2007
  • Calls at colony
    Recorded by Martha J. Fischer
    Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada July 2007
  • Calls at colony
    Recorded by Martha J. Fischer
    Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada July 2007
  • Calls at colony
    Recorded by Martha J. Fischer
    Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada July 2007
  • Calls on water adjacent to colony (just prior to nest attendance)
    Recorded by Gerrit Vyn
    Alaska June 2007
  • Calls at colony
    Recorded by Gerrit Vyn
    Alaska July 2007
  • Calls at colony
    Recorded by Gerrit Vyn
    Alaska July 2007
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Generally silent at sea, makes gutteral "urr" at colony.

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