In Alaska, common murres breed in unknown numbers in Glacier Bay and in large numbers on St. Lazaria, Forrester, and the Hazy islands.
Morphological differences between the two murre species suggest that thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia) feed on benthic organisms much more than do common murres (U.
About 30 species of marine birds are harvested for human consumption, eider ducks and murres being by far the most important.
Isleib and Kessel (1973) expressed the opinion that small numbers of thick-billed murres will be found in most common murre colonies in the northern Gulf of Alaska when it is possible to survey these colonies in detail.
Ogi and Tsujita (1973) analyzed the stomach contents of murres drowned in salmon gill nets but did not separate the two species.
The murres and puffins taken in the mothership area are of U.
Conclusion Two opposite population trends have been observed--the decline of the coastal-bound murres and razorbills and the increase and spread of the more pelagic gannets, fulmars, and kittiwakes.
The northern Norwegian population of the most threatened species, murres and razorbills, winter in North Sea coastal areas where oil pollution and oiled birds have most frequently been found.
Tuck (1960) reported data from the western Atlantic showing that thick-billed murres arrive later than common murres.
Data are not sufficient to show whether this small population of thick-billed murres is decreasing at the same rate as the common murre.
They are very common in the far north, placing nests on the ledges of high rocky cliffs, often in company with Murresand Auks.
Puffins, Auks and Murres are otherwise recognized by the presence of but three toes which are webbed.
They are very rapacious birds and live to a great extent, especially during the breeding season, upon the eggs and young of other birds such as Ducks, Murres and smaller Gulls.
They nest in large numbers on Bird Rock in company with the Murres and in still greater numbers off the coast of Labrador.
Family ALCIDÆ Puffins, Auks and Murres are all sea birds and are only found inland when blown there by some severe storm of winter.
The Gulls too suffer when the eggers come, for their eggs are gathered up with the Murres for the markets.
Murres are similar in form to the Guillemots, but are larger, being about 16 inches in length.
The eggs vary endlessly in marking but do not show the differences in ground color that the Murres do.
They nest by thousands on rocky islands of the north, often in company with Murres and Gulls.
Besides man, these Gulls are the greatest enemies that the Murreshave to content against.
On the Farallones islands, where the eggs were until recently collected for market purposes, the Murres nest chiefly in colonies, the largest rookery covering a hillside and surrounding cliffs at West End, and being known as the Great Rookery.
I asked some of the eggers how many murres nested on the South Farallon, and they thought at least one hundred thousand.
Those two mother murreswere not going to forsake their babies!
But soon the confusion caused by our descent among them subsided; the large colony of murres close by our heads returned to their rookery; and with the rain and thickening dark there spread everywhere the quiet of a low murmurous quacking.
Terns, Gulls, and Murres are known to go many miles in quest of food for their young and return through dense fogs with unerring directness to their nests.
Some of the sea birds of the far North, as, for example, the Murres and Auks, often lay their eggs on the shelving cliffs exposed to the sweep of the ocean gales.
They are great thieves, robbing the Murres and Terns wherever eggs are left unprotected, and are the greatest enemy that the Murres have to contend with.
The one egg laid by Murres is remarkable both in color and in shape.
In this manner it retains its place on the narrow ledges often chosen by Murres for nesting-sites.
Murres are very gregarious, nesting in large colonies on northern cliffs.
When the murres are suddenly disturbed, their eggs slip from their hold and plunge down the cliffs, splattering them with the yellow of their broken yolks.
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