After male murres and Razorbills take their small, flightless chicks to sea, they themselves undergo a prebasic molt, becoming flightless. |
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The removal of these predators has benefitted many other bird species on the islands, including puffins, murres, and auklets. |
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We examined the consequences of natal dispersal on the reproductive success of colonial-breeding Thick-billed murres. |
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By interspersing glides, murres in the model were able to regulate their mean descent speed without altering muscle contraction speed or load. |
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However, female murres also laid earlier as they increased in age up to eight years old. |
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Thick-billed murres are arctic seabirds that breed at high densities on cliff ledges, where they lay a single egg without constructing a nest. |
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He became interested in the subject in the 1970s while studying the mating strategies of common murres on the Welsh island of Skomer for his doctoral dissertation. |
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Our evidence from the diet of nestling thick-billed murres suggests that a switch from an Arctic to a Subarctic fish community occurred from 1997 onwards. |
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However, in films of murres underwater, relative upstroke speed and thrust appear to be greater during vertical descent against high buoyancy than during horizontal swimming. |
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Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more. |
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Year-round bird species include murres, auklets, kittiwakes, puffins, guillemots, Kittlitz's murrelet, and gulls. |
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Response of common murres to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and long-term changes in the Gulf of Alaska marine ecosystem. |
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Offshore areas are used by such birds as dovekies, murres, shearwaters, sea ducks such as the common eider, and alcids. |
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The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets. |
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They form large, dense, noisy colonies during the summer reproductive period, often sharing habitat with murres. |
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Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge, breeding grounds for thousands of sea birds such as puffins, auklets and murres. |
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Rehabilitated common murres, western grebes, and white-winged scoters had even less success than the coots or the pelicans. |
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Marvel at the murres, elders, razorbills, and puffins that occupy the Ile du Corossol bird sanctuary, followed by a visit to a local mussel and scallop farm. |
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A variety of seabirds can be seen close to the seaside, which is home to colonies of cormorants, gulls, razorbills, northern gannets, common murres and Atlantic puffins. |
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The guillemots of Europe are referred to as murres in North America, if they occur in both continents, and the little auk is referred to as the dovekie. |
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The greater prevalence of A longicervica in thick-billed murres was consistent with diet analyses, which revealed a greater proportion of euphausiids. |
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Thick-billed Murres are highly colonial, cliff-breeding seabirds of Arctic waters. |
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About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island. |
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