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Alaska birds suffered biggest die-off in recorded history in ‘Blob’ heat wave, new study says
The loss of an estimated 4 million common murres during the marine heatwave known as the “Blob” was the biggest bird die-off ...
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Millions of Alaska's seabirds starved to death after intense heat wave
Marine heat waves have halved Alaska’s common murre population. A study links these declines to food shortages.
Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common murres following the ‘warm blob’ in the Pacific Ocean
Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as “the blob ...