The southern breeding grounds of this species have been eliminated by man. Nature adds lethal misfortune by closing northern waters with ice and forcing MURRES to other feeding areas. They seldom find them. Extended flight is not their gift and many die from starvation when Arctic Winters are too rigorous. The single egg is designed to stay in place and is a slight factor in survival but not sufficient to overcome assaults of the Gray Spectre. They are nearly extinct where
Anglo-Saxons exist.
Coasts and islands of North Atlantic. South in Winter to Maine.