Common murres collected in Alaska from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016 and shipped to USGS National Wildlife Health Center for cause of death determination
About 62,000 dead or dying common murres (Uria aalge), the trophically dominant fish-eating seabird of the North Pacific, washed ashore between summer 2015 and spring 2016 on beaches from California to Alaska. Most birds were severely emaciated and, so far, no evidence for anything other than starvation was found to …