How to Use murre in a Sentence

murre

noun
  • And this happens more quickly for animals that use a lot of energy, like the diving murre.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2014
  • With plankton depleted, many species on which the murre depend for prey saw declines in body condition.
    — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Sea lions, common murres, and Cassin's auklets died by the thousands because of a lack of food.
    — Paul Melovidov, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
  • Scientists say the mass die-off was unprecedented – both for murres, and across all bird species worldwide.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Also in the mix are some kittiwakes, murres and auklets, the federal agency said.
    — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Fish-eating murres and kittiwakes, on the other hand, increased in the Chukchi Sea.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Common murres, known elsewhere as common guillemots, are an indicator of the health of an ecosystem.
    — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Spastic seabirds, the puffins, murres and a variety of seagulls challenged the boat, sometimes strafing in disdain when no morsels were cast their way.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2018
  • In Plympton, three sandhill cranes and a common murre at the Shifting Lots Preserve.
    — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The birds – a species known as the common murre – likely died of starvation due to the warm water, which severely disrupted the birds' food supply.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Wildlife sightings are scarce this trip, mainly penguin-like murres, although a dozen Zodiac riders spot a polar bear and cubs ashore.
    — Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
  • Common murres, for instance, are fast, powerful fliers and have asymmetric eggs, as do least sandpipers, which migrate long distances.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • And amid a tornado of shearwaters, murres, gulls and pelicans, all working on the hapless baitfish pushed to the surface by the salmon.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Emaciated murres and other seagoing species have washed onto the beach that fronts Savoonga and other western coastal villages.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • More than 30 dead seabirds -- murres, auklets and puffins -- have been found near the village in recent weeks, said Ken Stenek, a high school science teacher from the village.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2019
  • That day the soundtrack to the islands was the cacophony of thousands of murres roosting together, which pretty much drowned out the songs of all other seabirds, save for the occasional gull squawk.
    — Bonnie Tsui, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • Good flyers like sandpipers and murres tend to lay eggs that are more elongated and more asymmetrical—a bit like the shape of a Zeppelin—likely because lots of time in the air requires lightweight, compact bodies.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017
  • Others, such as the murres, dine on small fish such as smelt, which in the northern Bering Sea have suffered a 98% population drop in eight years, according to federal surveys.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2019
  • During a summertime visit, guests can marvel at huge crowds of northern gannets packed onto the surface of the formation, while other potential seabird sightings span from the common murre to the black-legged kittiwake to the little auk.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Interest in the subject has accelerated because of die-offs of some of the puffin’s auk family relatives, such as common murres and Cassin’s auklets off the West Coast.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The struggles of Alaska's seabirds grabbed scientists' attention in 2015, when hundreds of thousands of dead and dying common murres washed ashore along state's south-central coast during a period of unusually warm water temperatures.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2019

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