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Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Den danske atlas 1 p. 621 pl. 26

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Aves
order
Charadriiformes
family
Alcidae
genus
Uria
species
Uria aalge

Name

Synonyms
Colymbus spec Pontoppidan, 1763
Uria troile (Linnaeus)
Homonyms
Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Common names
(southern and northern) guillemot in English
Alcă nordică in Romanian
Alk in Turkish
Alkoun úzkozobý in Czech
Almindelig Lomvie in Danish
Arao Común in Spanish
Arao común in Spanish
Arao común in Spanish
Arao común in Spanish
Arao común in Spanish
Arau-comum in Portuguese
Atlantic Murre in English
Atlantic Murre in English
Common Guillemot in English
Common Guillemot in English
Common Guillemot in English
Common Guillemot in English
Common Guillemot in English
Common Guillemot in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre in English
Common Murre / Guillemot in English
Common Murre / Guillemot in English
Common Murre / Guillemot in English
Common murre in English
Common/Thick-billed Murre in English
Common/thick-billed Murre in English
Common/thick-billed Murre in English
Etelänkiisla in Finnish
Guillemot in English
Guillemot in English
Guillemot in English
Guillemot de Troïl in French
Guillemot de Troïl in French
Guillemot marmette in French
Guillemot marmette in French
Guillemot marmette in French
Guillemot marmette in French
Gwylogod in Welsh
Langvía in Icelandic
Lomvi in Norwegian
Lomvie in Danish
Lomvigi in Faroese
Láŋgá in Northern Sami

Bibliographic References

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  2. Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.
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  5. Dickinson, E. C., and J. V. Remsen Jr., eds., 2013: null. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 4th Edition, Vol. 1 Non-passerines. l + 461.
  6. García L, Calderón J, Castroviejo J (1989) Las aves de Doñana y su entorno. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) - Cooperativa Marismas del Rocío. Sevilla. 136 pp.
  7. García L, Ibáñez F, Garrido H, Arroyo JL, Máñez M, Calderón J (2000) Prontuario de las Aves de Doñana. Anuario Ornitológico de Doñana. Nº0, Diciembre 2000. Estación Biológica de Doñana y Ayuntamiento de Almonte. Almonte (Huelva). 113 pp.
  8. García-Novo F, Martín A, Toja J (2007) La Frontera de Doñana. Secretariado de Publicaciones. Vicerrectorado de Investigación. Universidad de Sevilla. Sevilla. 317 pp.
  9. García-Novo F, Marín-Cabrera C (2005) Doñana. Agua y Biosfera. Ed. Doñana 2005, Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. Madrid. 353 pp
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  11. Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright, 2006: null. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. ix + 259.
  12. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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  14. Llandres C, Urdiales C (1990) Las aves de Doñana. Lynx Edicions. Barcelona. 124 pp.
  15. Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp.
  16. Peterson, R.T.; Peterson, V.M. (2002). A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. <em>Fifth Edition.</em> Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.
  17. Robbins, C. S. (1983). Golden field Guide to Birds of North America. Golden press. 360p.
  18. Román J, Arias A M, Arroyo J L, Bastianelli G, Calzada J, Clavero M, Cobo M D, Díaz-Paniagua C, Ibáñez C, Juste J, Martínez A, Nogueras J, de los Reyes L, Revilla E, Rodríguez R, Rodríguez-Rodríguez E J, del Valle J L, Janss G F E, Tablado Z, D'Amico M, Navarro L M (2025). Checklist of the vertebrate fauna of the Doñana Biosphere Reserve (Spain) - 2025. Version 1.0. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Checklist dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/idnt5f
  19. SOF (2007) Holarktis Fåglar, version 2. SOF:s Taxonomikommittés officiella lista över Holarktis fåglar
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