Skip to content
The UK Bird Atlas

Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks November to December · Auks, Puffins, and Murres · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia)
AWeith, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Brünnich's Guillemot: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Brünnich's Guillemot has been recorded in 14 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in November to December.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
ND17Highland, Scotland22024unverified
TF94Norfolk, England222021unverified
NZ46South Tyneside, England42021unverified
NZ39Northumberland, England22021unverified
NZ38Northumberland, England22021unverified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland12018unverified
NO50Fife, Scotland142016unverified
TG04Norfolk, England12015unverified
SY67Dorset, England1002012 to 2013unverified
SY66Dorset, England42013unverified
NJ90Aberdeen City, Scotland62007unverified
HU48Shetland Islands, Scotland12006unverified
HU44Shetland Islands, Scotland142005unverified
TR01Kent, England12000unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.