Common murres are clustered together on a cliff ledge in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on July 30, 2019. Annual monitoring of key nesting sites has found that the common murre ...
A record 4 million common murres died as a result of a two-year marine heat wave in Alaska, a study found. A reduced murre colony nests on South Island of the Semidi Islands in 2021 after the heat ...
Now to the remote Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska. About a decade ago, people living there noticed something was missing. A once-abundant seabird seemed to be vanishing.
It was a chilly, gray December morning on Front Beach in Unalaska and Megan Dean gripped her binoculars, counting birds in Iliuliuk Bay. “One, two, three, four,” Dean counted methodically, watching ...
The common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change. A study published Thursday ...
An ocean heat wave in the northeast Pacific killed 4 million common murre birds, making it the largest documented single-species die-off in the modern era, new research has found. A study published in ...
Pacific Wildlife Care responded to a seabird called the common murre suffering from chemical burns caused by naturally-occurring oil in Morro Bay on March 7, 2025. Jim Winkle A penguin-shaped seabird ...
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