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Common Murre
Uria aalge · Family Alcidae
Uria aalge
Family Alcidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Alcidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,641,329
- Countries and territories with records
- 69
About this species
This species has 1,641,329 occurrence records from 69 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (31.1%), the United States (26.7%), Sweden (11%), the Netherlands (6.6%) and Norway (5.1%); together they account for 80.5% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 0.81% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Uria aalge combines the genus name Uria with the species epithet aalge. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Uria: Uria lomvia.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 19 species of the family Alcidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 6.5 times the family average (251,445). The family Alcidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.