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Birdwatch Magazine reported on the massive number of seabird deaths in recent weeks along the Pacific coast of North America. They reported

Around Halloween last year, thousands of Cassin’s Auklets began to wash up dead or dying along North America’s Pacific coast between California’s Farallon Islands in the south and the Queen Charlotte Islands off central British Columbia in the north.

Julia Parrish, a University of Washington seabird ecologist who oversees the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a program that has tracked West Coast seabird deaths for almost 20 years, commented: “This is just massive, unprecedented. We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths so far.”

Read article at  Mass seabird deaths on Pacific coast of North America | News | Birdwatch Magazine.