Fluorescent bill may be seabird’s neon sign

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Oct 2, 2021   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The crested auklet looks like a smiling clown that never blinks. It is probably the only seabird that smells like a tangerine. Its beak — the color of a tangerine — is so bright a scientist thinks it may be fluorescent. Hector Douglas is that scientist. He teaches at Grambling State University in the pine […]