Photos: Dozens of starving seabirds grounded inland in Southcentral Alaska

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A Common Murre rests on the side of Crystal Lake Road in Willow on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. Dozens of the sea birds have been spotted resting on the snow in the Susitna Valley all the way to Talkeetna after the recent windstorm. They are exhausted and disoriented and need water to take flight.

Normally found skimming the North Pacific, seabirds known as common murres are appearing inland on the Kenai Peninsula and elsewhere in Southcentral Alaska, starving and unable to fly.

Reports of grounded murres have emerged from Moose Pass to north of Talkeetna, with many found this week in the Susitna Valley. The foot-tall black and white birds that resemble small penguins are showing up in odd places -- on the shoulder of busy Knik-Goose Bay Road outside Wasilla, just off a sled dog trail in Willow, tucked up next to a house in Houston.

The influx of murres is inundating local wildlife rehabilitation centers.

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