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 ...

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 ...

Recent sightings (through March 11) as reported to Mass Audubon. Early ospreys were reported from Orleans, Harwich, and Falmouth. A black-headed gull continued in Eastham, most recently from First ...

But a notable bird has been missing the past few years - the common murre, a medium-sized black and white sea bird with a long, pointed bill. Not a single common murre was spotted in Unalaska's ...

They can’t walk on land, so if you see a grebe on land or the beach, something is wrong. They are not supposed to be there,” Masvidal said.

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 ...