Auklets

Since October of 2016, local community (including tribal communities) members have recovered over 350 ‘severely emaciated’ carcasses of puffins and auklets, a press release of the paper explains.

Large colonies, with over a million individuals, of crested auklets use the Sea of Okhotsk as a nesting site.

This reflects the type of prey taken: strong-swimming murres hunt faster schooling fish, whereas auklets take slower moving krill.

This varies by subfamily, the Uria guillemots (including the razorbill ) and murrelets being the most efficient under the water, whereas the puffins and auklets are better adapted for flying and walking.

Time depth recorders on auks have shown that they can dive as deep as 100 m in the case of Uria guillemots, 40 m for the Cepphus guillemots and 30 m for the auklets.