Sentences with phrase «seabirds die»

Each year, more than one million seabirds die from ingesting plastic garbage, often in the form of straws.

This year's mild winter was different, though, because dead seabirds were washing up on the beaches of Clatsop County by the thousands, in one of the biggest seabird die - offs in recorded history.

As many as 700,000 seabirds died in the first few months, and sea otters and harlequin ducks suffered large, long - term losses.

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Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.

The team also gathered data on seabird and fish populations that feed in the sea and then come onto land — like ocean - going salmon that move up rivers to defecate, spawn, and die.

Feeding conditions have improved for California sea lions and seabirds that experienced mass die - offs caused by shifts in their prey during the Blob.

Thousands of seabirds and marine mammals died.

Dead and dying dolphins, seals and seabirds washed up on tarred shores as the oil contaminated the coastal ocean.

Seabirds, whales, sea turtles and other marine life are eating marine plastic pollution and dying from choking, intestinal blockage and starvation.