Arctic Murres
Arctic Murres
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Murres - Better Swimmers Than Flyers
Murres are members of a group of black and white, duckshaped seabirds called auks. They spend almost all their lives at sea, and dive beneath the surface to feed on fish, squid, krill, and even marine worms.
They're deep divers. Dives of 100 meters / 330 feet appear to be common - that's over the length of a football field straight down!
Unlike ducks that propel themselves underwater with their feet, murres flap their half-open wings like they're flying. It's harder to move through water than through air, so to support all that flapping, murres have short strong wings - and very large breast muscles (making them meaty birds for the dinner table).
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