Hundreds of birds found dead on Sydney's beaches and it's our own fault

    Hundreds of birds found dead on Sydney's beaches and it's our own fault

    Hundreds of birds have been found dead on Sydney's beaches due to food shortages due to ocean warming.

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    It is impressive to see the Sydney beaches, from Bondi Beach to Cronulla to Collaroy Beach, clothed with dead birds and it is equally impressive to know that the unprecedented high number of victims is due to global warming.





    The bird concerned is the shearwater, very common in Australia, which returns to the coasts of the country every year to reproduce. A journey of 14.000 km across the Pacific, departing from Alaska, which this time did not go as usual, given the unprecedented number of deaths. The reason? Apparently the absence of food, scarcity due torising ocean temperatures.

    According to Peter Barrand, president of BirdLife Warrnambool, to Yahoo News Australia, something went wrong this year as almost twice as many birds usually arrive.

    And even Birdlife shows concern for this unexpected massacre: if on the one hand it states that the mortality rates of migrating birds vary from year to year, depending on particular climatic events and food availability, this time the numbers are alarming and could depend from the ocean warming which causes a terrible shortage of fish and other marine foods.

    Other problems that would have affected the death, the adverse weather conditions during the trip and theplastic pollution: the latter is often mistaken for food by birds causing their death. Same fate that unfortunately also affects many fish.


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    Laura Rose


    Photo Credit: Yahoonews e Birdlife

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