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Climate change challenges Nunavut鈥檚 thick-billed murres: researcher

Published: 12 June 2020

There鈥檚 less ice, more capelin and lots of hungry polar bears

Climate change in the eastern Arctic has already altered the travel, diet and safety of some of the most numerous birds in the circumpolar world: thick-billed murres, known as akpait in Inuktitut.

These and other changes are likely to continue, says Allison Patterson, a UU直播 graduate student [with Professor Kyle Elliott] who has tracked the habits of these black-and-white birds on Hudson Bay鈥檚 Coats Island, known as Akpatordjuark in Inuktitut.

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