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Common Murre

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:04:00 +0000

A quite large auk (so, a relative of the razorbill), the murre or the common guillemot is quite easy to find if you accept to visit the circumpolar regions (near the North Pole). Stylish and always elegant in its black tuxedo (an eternal sign of distinction as can be confirmed by James Bond).

Common Murre or Common guillemot, Guillemot de Troïl (Uria aalge)
Scotland, May 2018.

Birds of Prince Leopold Island 3/3

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 22:04:29 +0000

An island, a cliff, tens of thousands of nesting birds. This is the opportunity to shoot a few nice pictures, even if the sheer number makes it more difficult, not simpler.

Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia, Guillemot de Brünnich).

Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla, Mouette tridactyle).

Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut, Canada.
August 2016.

Birds of Prince Leopold Island 2/3

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:15:42 +0000

An island, a cliff, tens of thousands of nesting birds. This is the opportunity to shoot a few nice pictures, even if the sheer number makes it more difficult, not simpler.

Glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus, Goéland bourgmestre).

Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia, Guillemot de Brünnich).

Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla, Mouette tridactyle).

Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut, Canada.
August 2016.

Birds of Prince Leopold Island 1/3

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 22:49:15 +0000

An island, a cliff, tens of thousands of nesting birds. This is the opportunity to shoot a few nice pictures, even if the sheer number makes it more difficult, not simpler.

Glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus, Goéland bourgmestre).

Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia, Guillemot de Brünnich).

Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla, Mouette tridactyle).

Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut, Canada.
August 2016.

Thick-billed Murres

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 22:11:30 +0000

Birds totally at ease under water, these thick-billed murres are great swimmers but take a long time taking off.

Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia, Guillemot de Brünnich).
Akpait National Wildlife Area, Nunavut, Canada.
August 2016.

Murres thinking they are penguins

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 22:20:44 +0000

Since penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere and can’t fly, we could not encounter any during our 2016 trip to the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. However, we observed some birds who seemed to have the same behaviour assembling in groups on icebergs or ice-floes, like so many penguins do in the South of our planet.

Yes, the Thick-billed murre sometimes has the same kind of looks.

Thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia, Guillemot de Brünnich).
Akpait National Wildlife Area, Nunavut, Canada.
August 2016.