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 ...

ALASKA, USA — The common murre is a bird that, until 10 years ago, fit its name. “The common murre is – or at least was – pretty common,” explained University of Washington Professor and ...

Immature: first-year birds resemble ... hoary redpolls is unknown. Common. breeding: Found in the subarctic forests and tundra across northern Canada and much of Alaska. The rostrata breeds ...

Reviewed Work: Catalogue of a Collection of Birds Made in Alaska by Mr. C. H. Townsend during the Cruise of the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, in the Summer and Autumn of 1888 by Robert ...

Six months earlier, these birds had made an epic journey to get here, flying all the way from Alaska. Astonishingly, they didn’t stop along the way. For eight or nine days straight, they flew ...

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 ...