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murre  (mûr)
n. pl. murre or murres
Any of several large auks of the genus Uria, having black plumage and white markings.
[Origin unknown.]
murre [mɜː]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) US and Canadian any guillemot of the genus Uria
[origin unknown]
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Noun1.murre - black-and-white diving bird of northern seasmurre - black-and-white diving bird of northern seas
guillemot - small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas
genus Uria, Uria - murres
common murre, Uria aalge - the most frequent variety of murre
thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia - a variety of murre
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VIEWING Best bets: Common murre chicks will be jumping from the rocks where they were hatched into the ocean to join male murres during the last week in July and first week in August.
OUTDOORS BRIEFLY by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
From November 2001 through January 2003, we determined the prevalence of detectable enteric fauna by isolation and characterization of Gram-negative bacteria from cloacal swabs taken from 26 common murres (Uria aalge), 49 gulls (Larus spp), and 14 other seabirds treated by rehabilitators in California and Washington (USA).
J Wild Dis: Prevalences of zoonotic bacteria among seabirds in ... by Steele, C.M.; Brown, R.N.; Botzler, R.G. / Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery
Only 35 percent of the island's breeding pairs of common murres produced a chick this year, down from the typical 85 to 90 percent.
What's killing the seabirds? The mysterious West Coast dieoff by Deneen, Sally / E
 
 
 
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