Dead common murre on a Kodiak beach in 2015

A dead common murre on a beach with a measuring stick and sign about location and date
Photo By/Credit

Robin Corcoran/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
10/30/2015
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
A dead common murre photographed and collected as part of a COASST survey along the Buskin Beach on Kodiak Island. Surveys documented thousands of emaciated murre carcasses that washed ashore in 2015 and 2016 during a severe and widespread marine heatwave.
Species
Uria aalge
Subject tags
Birds
Climate effects
Seabirds