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

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/