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USNPS reports 5th straight year of seabird dieoffs in Alaska; mass starvation linked to warming seas

Writer's picture: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

Federal wildlife officials said Monday that the deaths of thousands of seabirds in Western Alaska this summer was because of starvation, as they investigate a fifth straight year of unusually high numbers of seabird fatalities amid warm sea surface temperatures.


Thousands of short-tailed shearwaters were reported dead and washing onto beaches in the Bristol Bay region starting in late June, the National Park Service said in a statement on Monday.


https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2019/09/09/fifth-straight-year-of-bird-die-off-in-alaska-waters-linked-to-starvation/

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