Heather Renner, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge supervisory biologist, published research in December that shows true common murre mortality rates were closer to four times that number ...

Common murre colony on the South Island of Semidi Islands, in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge south of the Alaska Peninsula, in 2014, before the marine heat wave. Disclaimer ...

But when a bird like a murre is hit, I mean, you know something's really haywire in the big picture. STUART-RASI: Alaska is known to be home to 8 million common murres across the state - a quarter ...

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.

The rich waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska support one of the world's ... and the rhinoceros auklet. Murre Colony, Norton Sound. (Photo by Vivian Mendenhall). Click image for a larger ...