The decline of the Thick-billed Murre in Greeland

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Evans, Peter, Waterston, George
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1976
• Subjects: Agparssuit; Greenland; Kap; Kap Shackleton; Shackleton; Tuck; brünnich's guillemot; Polar Record; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400000334; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400000334

The total breeding population of the Thick-billed Murre (Brünnich's Guillemot) Uria lomvia in west Greenland in 1951 was estimated to amount to two million pairs (Salomonsen, 1951), half of which inhabit the gigantic loomery at Kap Shackleton (Agparssuit) (Fig 1). Tuck (1960) considered this to...