SAN DIEGO (AP) — Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another. Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks.
Many seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler waters. That's according to scientists who say a persistent marine heat wave has shrunk the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where krill, anchovies and sardines thrive near the shor…
Many seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler waters Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses – one after another. Some were mixed in with washed up kelp.
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