/macdonald/taxonomy/term/2985/all en /macdonald/channels/news/climate-change-challenges-nunavuts-thick-billed-murres-researcher-322746 <p>There’s less ice, more capelin and lots of hungry polar bears</p> <p>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.</p> <p>These and other changes are likely to continue, says <strong>Allison Patterson</strong>, a ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University graduate student [with <strong>Professor Kyle Elliott</strong>] who has tracked the habits of these black-and-white birds on Hudson Bay’s Coats Island, known as Akpatordjuark in Inuktitut.</p> Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:16:19 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 224247 at /macdonald