But after seven years of monitoring common murre populations across 13 nesting colonies in Alaska, Renner and her colleagues at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now realize they hadn’t fully ...

Heather Renner, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge supervisory biologist, published research in December that shows ...

Alaska’s population of common murres took a big hit in 1989 from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It is estimated that the spill killed 250,000 birds, and most were common murres. The common murre ...

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About four million common murres were killed by a domino ... that the birds have not even begun to rebound. Image A murre colony in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, seen before ...

Decades of citizen science in Alaska helped researchers figure out how one of the biggest wildlife die-offs — that of the seabird the common murre — unfolded. Now to the remote Aleutian ...

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 in Science on Thursday, led by the Fish and Wildlife Service, found that a marine heat wave between 2014 and 2016 killed off roughly half of Alaska’s common murre population.

By 2015 and 2016, starvation swept through common murre populations, and beaches from Alaska to California became littered with their carcasses. Researchers with the University of Washington's ...

"There's a lot of talk about declines of species that are tied to changes in temperature, but in this case, it was not a long term result," lead author Heather Renner of the Alaska Maritime ...