Thick-billed Murre
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Thick-billed Murre

Uria lomvia

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
<5% · Rare
overall probability at Vatnajokull National Park
10 Verified records at Vatnajokull National Park
March Best month highest sighting rate
☀️🌙 Day & Night When it's active Active throughout day and night

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. Wikipedia →

<5% of wildlife watchers report a Thick-billed Murre sighting in Vatnajokull National Park, based on 10 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

Closest Relatives at Vatnajokull National Park

Common Murre
LC

Common Murre

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Uria aalge

<5% · Rare
Black Guillemot
LC

Black Guillemot

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Cepphus grylle

30–40% · Possible
Atlantic Puffin

Atlantic Puffin

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Fratercula arctica

<5% · Rare
Razorbill
LC

Razorbill

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Alca torda

<5% · Rare
Dovekie
LC

Dovekie

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Alle alle

Insufficient data
Black-headed Gull

Black-headed Gull

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

70–80% · Very likely
Common Snipe
LC

Common Snipe

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Gallinago gallinago

50–60% · Likely
Arctic Tern
LC

Arctic Tern

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Sterna paradisaea

50–60% · Likely
Common Redshank
LC

Common Redshank

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Tringa totanus

40–50% · Likely
European Herring Gull
LC

European Herring Gull

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Larus argentatus

40–50% · Likely
European Golden Plover
LC

European Golden Plover

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Pluvialis apricaria

40–50% · Likely
Great Black-backed Gull
LC

Great Black-backed Gull

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Larus marinus

40–50% · Likely

📅 Monthly Probability

<5
Jan
<5
Feb
<5
Mar
<5
Apr
<5
May
<5
Jun
<5
Jul
<5
Aug
<5
Sep
<5
Oct
<5
Nov
<5
Dec

☀️🌙 When They're Spotted

Active throughout day and night · across all parks (global)

☀️🌙Day & Night
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Kenai Fjords National Park 🇺🇸 United States
40–50%
2 Vatnajokull National Park 🇮🇸 Iceland
<5%
3 Acadia National Park 🇺🇸 United States
<5%
4 Katmai National Park 🇺🇸 United States
Insufficient data
5 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park 🇺🇸 United States
Insufficient data
6 Cape Breton Highlands National Park 🇨🇦 Canada
Insufficient data
7 Great Bear Rainforest 🇨🇦 Canada
Insufficient data

Quick answers

What are the chances of seeing a Thick-billed Murre in Vatnajokull National Park?

About 0% of wildlife watchers report a Thick-billed Murre sighting in Vatnajokull National Park, based on 10 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

When is the best time to see Thick-billed Murre in Vatnajokull National Park?

March has the highest sighting rate for Thick-billed Murre in Vatnajokull National Park in our monthly data.

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