Murre die-off reported around Kodiak

A common murre in water. Photo by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith / Flickr
Kodiak Island residents have been reporting a large number of common murres washing up dead on local beaches.
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Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge bird biologist, Robin Corcoran, says that the common murre is a small, black and white seabird and that its breeding colonies are more common in the Alaska Peninsula and in the Aleutians.
“They do spend some time here in the winter and then there’s a