murre
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- noun
- /mɜr/
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murre
- PHOTO (COLOR): Thick-billed Murre, Uria lomvia
- Thick-billed murre
Examples
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The thick-billed murre has black feathers on its back and a white front.
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These techniques have been used to bring common murres back to a breeding site off the coast of California that was devastated by an oil spill in 1986.
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PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Thick-billed Murre
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On the edge of the island, a small army of black-and-white murre decoys stands above a steep cliff, and a recording of murre calls bleats patiently into the wind.
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On the edge of the island, a small army of black-and-white murre decoys stands above a steep cliff, and a recording of murre calls bleats patiently into the wind.
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Thick-billed Murre or Brunnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) (height: medium 18 inches)
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Found there are also Kittiwake gulls, Common murres, Razorbills, Leach's storm petrels, and Herring gulls, among other species.
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In the summer of 2009, on a narrow rock ledge above the sea, they were delighted to find a single brown-spotted, narrow-tipped egg—the first murre egg found in Maine in more than a century.
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Most were common murres, black and white seabirds that nest in large colonies.
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Common murres, standing on a ramp that leads to the water, surveyed the human interlopers.
Synonyms
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A large black and white seabird that nests on cliffs and dives for fish
A black-and-white sea bird that nests on rocky cliffs in northern oceans
A seabird like a puffin that dives to catch fish in northern oceans
Compounds
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A large seabird that lives in Arctic seas with a short, thick bill and black and white feathers
Surface Forms
Etymology
Murre probably comes from old northern sea words and may copy the bird's low, murmuring call, like the familiar word murmur. So murre is easy to remember as the black-and-white diving seabird that makes a soft, murmur-like sound.