Monitoring Common Murres in Alaska

Experience the dramatic world of common murres through this collection of photographs from monitoring sites across Alaska's rugged coastline. These striking black and white seabirds, sometimes called "penguins of the north," can be seen nesting in dense colonies on steep cliffs and offshore islands, where dedicated researchers track their population dynamics and breeding success in some of the North Pacific's most remote locations.

This collection also contains images from the 2015-2016 catastrophic die-off of common murres across two Alaska ecosystems that resulted from a significant marine heatwave.