Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Gaston ◽  
J. Mark Hipfner
Keyword(s):  
Uria Lomvia

scholarly journals Gut microbiome is affected by inter-sexual and inter-seasonal variation in diet for thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Góngora ◽  
Kyle H. Elliott ◽  
Lyle Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiome ◽  
Sulfur Isotopes ◽  
Trophic Position ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
16S Rrna Gene Sequencing ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Uria Lomvia ◽  
Fecal Microbiome ◽  
Prey Specialization ◽  
Rrna Gene Sequencing

AbstractThe role of the gut microbiome is increasingly being recognized by health scientists and veterinarians, yet its role in wild animals remains understudied. Variations in the gut microbiome could be the result of differential diets among individuals, such as variation between sexes, across seasons, or across reproductive stages. We evaluated the hypothesis that diet alters the avian gut microbiome using stable isotope analysis (SIA) and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. We present the first description of the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) fecal microbiome. The murre microbiome was dominated by bacteria from the genus Catellicoccus, ubiquitous in the guts of many seabirds. Microbiome variation was explained by murre diet in terms of proportion of littoral carbon, trophic position, and sulfur isotopes, especially for the classes Actinobacteria, Bacilli, Bacteroidia, Clostridia, Alphaproteobacteria, and Gammaproteobacteria. We also observed differences in the abundance of bacterial genera such as Catellicoccus and Cetobacterium between sexes and reproductive stages. These results are in accordance with behavioural observations of changes in diet between sexes and across the reproductive season. We concluded that the observed variation in the gut microbiome may be caused by individual prey specialization and may also be reinforced by sexual and reproductive stage differences in diet.

A Late Pliocene occurrence of the Thick-billed Murre (Alcidae: Uria lomvia) on St. George Island, Pribilofs, Alaska

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 1365-1368
Author(s):  
Storrs L. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Uria Lomvia ◽  
Late Pliocene

Diving behaviour and foraging habitats of Brünnich's guillemots (Uria lomvia) breeding in the High-Arctic

2001 ◽  
Vol 255 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Mehlum ◽  
Y. Watanuki ◽  
A. Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Diving Behaviour ◽  
Uria Lomvia

Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Gaston ◽  
J. Mark Hipfner
Keyword(s):  
Uria Lomvia

scholarly journals Heat increment of feeding in Brunnich's guillemot

1997 ◽  
Vol 200 (12) ◽  
pp. 1757-1763 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Hawkins ◽  
P Butler ◽  
A Woakes ◽  
G Gabrielsen
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Energetic Cost ◽  
Uria Lomvia ◽  
Deep Body Temperature ◽  
Common Murre ◽  
Heat Increment Of Feeding ◽  
Heat Increment ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Free Ranging ◽  
Persistent Elevation

The rate of oxygen consumption (O2), respiratory quotient (RQ) and deep body temperature (TB) were recorded during a single, voluntary ingestion of Arctic cod Boreogadus saida (mean mass 18.9+/-1.1 g, s.e.m., N=13) by five postabsorptive Brunnich's guillemots (thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia). The birds were resting in air within their thermoneutral zone, and the fish were refrigerated to 0-2 degreesC. The rate of oxygen consumption increased by a factor of 1.4 during the first few minutes after ingestion, but there was no significant change in TB. Mean rate of oxygen consumption returned to preingestive levels 85 min after the birds ate the fish. The telemetered temperature of one fish reached TB within 20 min. This suggests that the persistent elevation in O2 over the next hour corresponded to the obligatory component of the heat increment of feeding (HIF) and was not related to heating the fish. Abdominal temperature increases after diving bouts in free-ranging common guillemots (common murre, Uria aalge) are possibly achieved through the HIF, since meals are processed at sea. Of the increase in O2 measured in the laboratory, it is calculated that 30 % is required to heat the fish, while 70 % is due to the HIF. In free-ranging birds, the excess heat provided by the HIF could contribute 6 % of the daily energy expenditure. This suggests that the HIF augments heat production in Uria spp. and thus reduces the energetic cost of thermoregulation.

scholarly journals Trends in Forage Fish Populations in Northern Hudson Bay since 1981, as Determined from the Diet of Nestling Thick-billed Murres, Uria lomvia

ARCTIC ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Gaston ◽  
Kerry Woo ◽  
J. Mark Hipfner
Keyword(s):  
Fish Populations ◽  
Forage Fish ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Uria Lomvia

scholarly journals Growth of Nestling Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) in Relation toParental Experience and Hatching Date

The Auk ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mark Hipfner ◽  
Anthony J. Gaston
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Avian Species ◽  
Parental Age ◽  
Hatching Date ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Breeding Performance ◽  
Uria Lomvia ◽  
Nestling Growth ◽  
Parental Experience

Abstract In many avian species, reproductive success increases with parental age and experience, and declines seasonally. However, it is difficult to evaluate how parental attributes affect reproduction independently of date effects, because young, inexperienced pairs generally lay later than older, experienced pairs. We examined how parental experience and timing affected nestling growth in the Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia), an Arctic seabird that lays a single-egg clutch, by taking advantage of a natural contrast made possible by marked within-group synchrony. That is a common feature at murre colonies, and enabled us to monitor the breeding performance of experienced pairs over an extended period that overlapped with breeding by inexperienced pairs late in the season. Whereas growth of offspring raised by experienced parents was unaffected by their hatching date, offspring raised by inexperienced parents grew more slowly than those raised concurrently by experienced parents. Therefore, parental experience influenced nestling growth rates whereas timing did not, a result that accords with previous studies on this species. Absence of direct effects of timing of egg-laying on breeding success of Thick-billed Murres stands in sharp contrast to many other avian species, and seems surprising for an Arctic-nesting species often assumed to be strictly time-constrained in its breeding.

scholarly journals Investigation of the 2018 thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) die-off on St. Lawrence Island rules out food shortage as the cause

2020 ◽  
Vol 181-182 ◽  
pp. 104879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Will ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Thiebot ◽  
Hon S. Ip ◽  
Punguk Shoogukwruk ◽  
Morgan Annogiyuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Shortage ◽  
Uria Lomvia
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