They breed on the same islands in company with the common Murre and their eggs are indistinguishable.
This Pacific form of the commonMurre is the most abundant breeding bird on the Farallones.
This species differs from the common Murrein having a shorter and thicker bill, the base of the cutting edge of which is less feathered.
They are always on the watch and if a Murre leaves its nest, one of the Gulls is nearly always ready to pounce upon the egg and carry it away bodily in his bill.
Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia) Thick-billed murre population information cannot be separated from that of the common murre on the basis of existing data.
The decline of the thick-billed murre in Greenland.
Eggs of terns and gulls can be collected for food in southwest Greenland to 1 July, and in northwest Greenland to 10 July; fulmar and murre eggs can also be collected in northwest Greenland.
He did not note the common murre (Uria aalge) at all.
Distribution of the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) in Norway.
I conclude from this that where there are dramatic changes in species composition of murre colonies, such as at Walrus Island, it is probably because the common murre has been greatly reduced in numbers at the colony.
However, in recent years, shooting and a special form of snaring of murres have increased dramatically and seem to have endangered the murre population.
Common Murre (Uria aalge) The common murre is resident in the northern and western Gulf of Alaska from Pinnacle Rock, Kayak Island, westward.
For some reason, the islands of the Kodiak-Afognak Archipelago do not host any known major murre colonies.
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Rag Alley" in Old Chinatown The Farallones Murre on their Nests, Farallone Islands Monterey, 1850 San Carlos de Carmelo "The Huge Court of that Luxurious Caravansary.
The gull is soon through, but the murre continues to lay for about two months.
The gull makes a rude nest of brush and sea-weed upon the rocks; the murre does not take even this much trouble, but lays its eggs in any convenient place on the bare rocks.
The murre feeds on sea-grass and jelly-fish, and I was assured that though some hundreds had been examined at different times, no fish had ever been found in a murre's stomach.
The murre does not fly high, nor is it a very active bird, or apparently of long flight.
The murre remains until her enemy is close upon her; then she rises with a scream which often startles a thousand or two of birds, who whirl up into the air in a dense mass, scattering filth and guano over the eggers.
Coolidge killed a White-winged Crossbill on these Murre rocks; for several weeks we have seen these birds pass over us, but have found none anywhere on shore.
Coolidge's party went to the Murre Rocks, where the Guillemots breed, and brought about fifteen hundred eggs.
The murre broods her very large egg by standing straight up over it, her short legs, by dint of stretching, allowing her to straddle it, her short tail propping her securely from behind.
They simply looped a rope about me, under my arms, and lowered me over the narrow shelves into the midst of a large murre colony, from which point I got on alone.
Hear thou, Platt, Say to thy cat That Knurre-Murre is dead.
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