A mass of dead birds have been washing up on Alaskan beaches in the past few months in unprecedented size, scope and duration, according to a federal biologist. The species meeting its end is the common murre, a Pacific seabird sometimes compared to penguins because of their appearance, the only difference being that they’re smaller, and they can fly. Because of this die-off many wildlife biologists believe that something is off in the Gulf of Alaska.
Heather Renner, a supervisory wildlife biologist at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge told the Alaska Marine Science Symposium on Thursday that this might be the the largest murre die-off ever recorded, even dwarfing the the murres killed in the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which killed about 22,000. Now, hundreds of dead murres are showing up at many beaches off the Alaskan coast, with nearly 8,000 discovered this month, alone.
Residents can hardly walk a mile along the beach without finding a dead murre or several.
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Could we send them you? Never mind I don’t to make Americans look bad so just stay here XD
The smell reminds me of your mom, William Mohr. You keep em.
White people caused it,I seen it all
Why is this not being covered by the main media, sadly this is happening more frequently and in a larger proportion to a lot of other animals in the world something is going on and it’s not good
Radiation still flowing out of Japan’s power plants.
People next
Fukashima
There’s got to be a better method of dealing with the waste water from spent fuel.
They’re nothing we would eat
Fukashima radiation is circling not only the pacific but the whole planets oceans will eventually be poisoned with radiation contamination…the scientist have always said if the oceans die we die!!!