Common murre

Murre colonies made up of dozens of birds on a rocky outcropping surrounded by churning ocean. It is also known as the thin-billed murre or common guillemot, all nesting sites are on offshore islands. (Family: alcidae; binomial name: uria aalge).

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Sea birds
• Colonial birds
• Sea birds--Habitat
• Common murre
• Seashore ecology
• Seashore animals
• Birds--Behavior
• Islands
• Birds

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_095; Cowan_PN_632; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 4

Date created

• 1930 to 1939

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : black and white ; 7.5 x 11.5 cm

Alternative title

• Murre [Common]

Geographic coverage

• California--Point Reyes National Seashore

Coordinates

• 38.05501, -122.87973

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/nqrt-dk51

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