Response of common murres to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and long-term changes in the Gulf of Alaska marine ecosystem. |
By interspersing glides, murres in the model were able to regulate their mean descent speed without altering muscle contraction speed or load. |
Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more. |
However, female murres also laid earlier as they increased in age up to eight years old. |
Thick-billed murres are arctic seabirds that breed at high densities on cliff ledges, where they lay a single egg without constructing a nest. |
We examined the consequences of natal dispersal on the reproductive success of colonial-breeding Thick-billed murres. |