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title: "Thick-billed Murre"
description: "Uria lomvia — Birds. The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/thick-billed-murre
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Thick-billed Murre

> Uria lomvia — Birds. The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae).

- Scientific name: *Uria lomvia*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast), `arctic` (Arctic)
- iNaturalist observations: 3353
- Wikidata: [Q728682](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728682)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4516](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4516)

## Names

- en: Thick-billed Murre
- de: Dickschnabellumme
- es: Arao de Pico Ancho
- fr: Guillemot de Brünnich
- nl: Kortbekzeekoet
- pl: Nurzyk polarny

## Countries with the most observations

US (747), SJ (581), CA (425), RU (282), IS (149), NO (77), GL (32), GB (5), JP (5), KR (4), NL (4)

## Summary

The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). This bird is named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich. The very deeply black North Pacific subspecies Uria lomvia arra is also called Pallas' murre after its describer.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-billed_murre

## Photo

![Thick-billed Murre](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/thick-billed-murre/medium.jpg)

Photo: steve b · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173480472

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/thick-billed-murre?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).