Uria Brisson, 1760

kingdom Animalia > phylum Chordata > subphylum Vertebrata > infraphylum Gnathostomata > superclass Reptilia > class Aves > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae > genus Uria

RankGenus
Statusaccepted
Aphia IDurn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137041
NCBI ID13745
Common names ウミガラス
Environments marine, terrestrial

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Child taxa

Species Uria aalge
Species Uria lomvia
Species Uria troile unaccepted
Species Uria pusilla superseded combination

Statistics

Occurrence records 737,144
Species level 722,057
Absence records 2,207
Species 2
Taxa 6
Datasets 86
Time range 1823 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 19
Not marine 0
Marine unsure 0
No coordinates 19
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 434,936 204,249
decimalLatitude 8 11
decimalLongitude 8 11
eventDate 40,475 0
maximumDepthInMeters 736,476 1,265
minimumDepthInMeters 736,476 1,265
occurrenceStatus 1,854 0
scientificNameID 5 1,337

Spatial issues

Records on land 40,919
More than 20 km from shore 32
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 0

Distribution

Records

Environmental conditions

Top datasets

Dataset Records
European Seabirds At Sea (ESAS)
Published 2025-03-20 		398,804
JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database
Published 2021-04-24 		189,044
SEAPOP NINA
Published 2025-03-20 		38,540
CWS-EC Eastern Canada Seabirds at Sea (ECSAS)
Published 2020-10-27 		29,017
PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992
Published 2021-04-24 		16,224
Bird observations at Borsele off shore wind farm
Published 2025-03-20 		15,333
MMS Low Altitude Survey 1980-1983
Published 2021-04-24 		10,571
Observatoire Pelagis boat surveys 2003-2021
Published 2022-10-20 		5,755
MMS Aerial Survey, PNW 1989-1990
Published 2021-04-24 		3,369
CalCOFI and NMFS Seabird and Marine Mammal Observation Data, 1987-2006
Published 2021-04-24 		2,106