A seabird commonly found in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest is in a dire situation. Half the population died 10 years ago, and still has not recovered. Trump nominee Kash Patel touches parents ...

Murres are not the only species in Alaskan waters undergoing significant changes. Huettmann noted the tufted puffin, a sensitive marine bird, has been seen migrating north because of poor ...

Group of common murres on a breeding colony in Alaska. These seabirds dive and swim through the water to feed off small fish, then fly to islands or coastal cliffs to nest in large colonies.

But 10 years ago, warming Pacific Ocean waters led to a massive die-off of the bird, with the biggest impacts felt in Alaska, where an estimated 8 million murres used to live. “So many of them ...

Common murres, for instance, have particularly pointy and elliptical eggs (see above)—and are expert divers. Perhaps a streamlined bird needs a streamlined egg; stout flightless birds like ...

The ferruginous hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included 2 piping plovers, 2 semipalmated plovers, 58 black-bellied plovers, 60 red knots, 980 dunlin, 3 bald eagles, ...