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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 explain this mass mortality. Three-quarters of murres were found in the Gulf of Alaska and the remainder along the West Coast. Total mortality was estimated at 0.54 to 1.2 million birds. About two-thirds of murres killed were adults, a substantial blow to breeding populations. Additionally, 22 complete reproductive failures were observed at multiple colonies region-wide during (2015) and after (2016-2017)...
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This data is measurements of the temperature inside prairie dog burrows. The data were recorded every half hour during May, June, and August of 2016 and 2017 in New Mexico, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana.
Categories: Data;
Tags: BLM Pecos District, NM,
Black-tailed prairie dogs,
Buffalo Gap National Grassland, SD,
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, MT,
Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, SD, All tags...
Pueblo Chemical Depot, CO,
Theodore Roosevelt National Park South Unit, ND,
UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, MT,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Disease,
burrows,
fleas,
microclimate,
relative humidity,
temperature, Fewer tags
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