murre

Noun

murre (plural murres)

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community, page 252
   • About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296

   Synonyms:

   guillemot