It’s jumpling season!” the Seaside Aquarium noted in an Aug. 22 Facebook post. “It is the time of year when the adorable common murre chicks are jumping/stumbling off of the rocks they were born on.

Benowitz-Fredericks, Z. M. and Kitaysky, A. S. 2005. Benefits and costs of rapid growth in common murre chicks Uria aalge. - J. Avian Biol. 36: 287-294. While accelerated growth can be advantageous to ...

In recent years, climate change has increasingly made headlines, but few stories are as alarming as the record heat wave that struck Alaska. The impact of this extreme weather event, which occurred ...

Adult common murres return to island and sea stack colonies from California to Alaska, spending three months during each summer to breed. A single chick takes two parents to hunt for fish, such as the ...