The Evening Star "The White Seabird Alaska" 1988 on the Alkan Hwy * Inland, near Wasilla where I lived in Alaska, the ocean was only a few miles away. Sea gulls would land near my door and welcomed ...

In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along with 12 others, made the perilous journey by boat from Iceland to the island of Eldey. They were searching for great auks: black and ...

IT is often considered that the white plumage of gulls, terns, gannets, etc., in temperate climates is in contradiction to the principle of protective and adaptive coloration, and survives only ...

They dive and pursue their prey underwater. Most auks are black and white. LARGE AUKS are about the size of a duck and include puffins, murres, guillemots, and the rhinoceros auklet. Murre Colony ...