murre

/mur/US // mɜr //UK // (mɜː) //

尸体,尸体的,马雷

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge or U. lomvia.
- : razor-billed auk.

This Pacific form of the common Murre is the most abundant breeding bird on the Farallones.
They breed on the same islands in company with the common Murre and their eggs are indistinguishable.
Murrain (or morena in Latin chronicles) is probably the modern survival of mure or murre.
The murre does not fly high, nor is it a very active bird, or apparently of long flight.
The gull begins to lay about the middle of May, and usually ten days before the murre.