Title: Birds of Island
Date of Issue: 5 November 2009
Country: Iceland
Denominations: 110, 130 ISK
Thick-billed Murre or Brünnich’s Guillemot (uria lomvia) is a coastal bird in the auk family. Adult birds are black on the head with white underparts. These birds breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs, their single egg being laid directly on a cliff ledge. They are mostly to be found in Látrabjarg and Hornbjarg in the Westfiords. Most guillemots are in Iceland from April until early August.

The breeding stock numbers around 600.000 pairs. Glaucous gull (larus hyperboreus) is a gull of the larus species. Adult gulls are big birds with grey plumage, 60-70 cm in length with a wingspan of 150-165 cm. They breed mostly in the Westfiords. Monogamy is the rule in this species of gulls. They normally lay 3 eggs with an incubation period of less than a month. The young birds stay in the nest for six weeks.

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