murres

Historically, seabirds were an important component of the subsistence lifestyle for coastal peoples, but today seabird harvesting for birds and eggs is much less widespread, although improved hunting technologies have tended to increase harvests on species such as murres [31].

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

The ones with thin bills? they are guillemots, "murres" as we call them in Devon: but in some places they call them "marrocks," from what they say.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

Likewise, 10,000 -- or for that matter 200,000 -- fulmars or common murres can die in the Gulf of Alaska almost unnoticed.

AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed AlaskaDispatch.com 2011

The water's edge was silent, save for gentle winds, the flapping of the wings of murres and the occasional, jarring rifle shot.

In the Arctic, Sleeping Soundly Sean Silcoff 2011

They might have been either murres or eider ducks; we didn't have the binoculars, so we're not sure.

"While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy, high..." greygirlbeast 2009

Likewise, 10,000 -- or for that matter 200,000 -- fulmars or common murres can die in the Gulf of Alaska almost unnoticed.

AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed AlaskaDispatch.com 2011

Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.

Where Birds Rule the Earth 2009

Thousands of murres stood on narrow ledges, faces to the wall, each protecting its one egg.

Where Birds Rule the Earth 2009

Thousands of murres stood on narrow ledges, faces to the wall, each protecting its one egg.

Where Birds Rule the Earth 2009

Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.

Where Birds Rule the Earth 2009