Melanistic Common Murre holds a display fish
![An all-black (melanistic) Common Murre on rock ledge holding a display fish in its bill. Gulls are the rock ledge.](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/media/images/DSC_1052_edit_2019.jpg?itok=CGVpmR8x)
Detailed Description
A melanistic (all dark) Common Murre holds a display fish at its breeding site on Gull Island in Kachemak Bay, Alaska, 2019. See related paper published in the Marine Ornithology: Journal of Seabird Research and Conservation at: http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/50_2/50_2_225-227.pdf.
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Public Domain.
Photo by Sarah Schoen, U.S. Geological Survey