"We accept never begin abutting to 8,000 birds on a 1-mile continued bank before," Irons said. "It is an adjustment of consequence beyond than any annal that I am acquainted of."
Since the event, adolescent biologist Tamara Zeller has been canoeing about Prince William Sound in seek of added asleep or ailing murres and in the action has been tallying the bulk of birds amphibian in the water. On Jan. 7 about two weeks ago, she counted 98 birds on the baptize and 284 on the shore. At the end of the day, the absolutely account was at a whopping 3,000.
Heather Renner, a biologist at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, claims that the die-off is a allotment of a abundant bigger accident that extends accomplished Whittier and estimated that about 100,000 accepted murres accept met their afterlife in a agnate manner.
"It's harder to apperceive how abounding birds accept died because Alaska is so big, and there are so abounding limited areas," Renner said.
After testing about 100 carcasses, the could could cause of afterlife was bent to be emaciation, acceptable due to a abridgement of a able aliment supply.
Despite the alarming amount of deaths, even these top numbers are absurd to put a above cavity in the seabird population, according to CNN. However, the allegation should not go unnoticed.
"Seabird biologists say seabirds are indicators of the bloom of the ecosystem," Irons said. "Now they're dying and that is cogent us something. We should be acquainted of that. If we don't almanac they're dying it goes unnoticed."
As of now, scientists apperceive that the birds are acceptable craving to afterlife and it is affiliated to the balmy ocean waters, but added than that no one knows the exact could could cause of the occurances, according to CBS46.
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