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Common Murre Range Map

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Range Map for Common Murre

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Migration

Short-distance migrant. Disperses to the open ocean after nesting.

BirdLife International and Cornell Lab of Ornithology (in review) Distribution map for Common Murre Uria aalge. In BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2019) Bird species distribution maps of the world.

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