Thick-billed Murre
Uria lomvia

f4 @ 1/1600s, ISO:2000, Nikon D3S w 500mm


"Thick-billed Murre," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The thick-billed murre or Brunnich's guillemot is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae).Thick-billed murres form vast breeding colonies, sometimes composed of over a million breeding birds, on narrow ledges and steep cliffs which face the water. They have the smallest territory of any bird, requiring less than one square foot per individual. A breeding pair will lay a single egg each year. Despite this, they are one of the most abundant marine birds in the Northern Hemisphere.
St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, Alaska
 
06/23/2016