Muriel the common murre
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Owner:
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DavidSuzukiFdn
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Released:
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
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Origin:
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British Columbia, Canada
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Recently Spotted:
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In the hands of lukard.
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Muriel would like to visit Victoria and then head to Tofino!
With their black backs and white bellies, common murres are the closest thing to penguins in the cool northern oceans! The common murre has the uncommon ability to dive over 100 metres to catch its dinner, mostly for small schooling fish such as herring. That's like diving to the ground from the top of a 25-storey building for a meal! These seabirds spend the majority of their lives out at sea, only coming ashore to breed during the summer. They are well-adapted to ocean life, can dive before learning to fly, and are better at swimming and diving than flying. Common murres can remain underwater for up to two minutes. They don't make nests, instead laying their eggs—specially shaped to prevent them from rolling off—on bare rock ledges on cliff faces. The common murre is often killed accidentally as fisheries bycatch and from chronic oil leaks and spills in waters off the B.C. coast. While their nesting site on Triangle Island (where 95 per cent of the province's seabirds breed) is protected, they remain vulnerable out at sea where they forage for food for their young.
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