The Pacific Coast’s Starving Seabird Mystery

Living on Earth

Since the beginning of August, a seabird called the common murre has been washing up in droves on beaches from Southern California to Alaska. Living on Earth’s Emmett FitzGerald reports on the efforts in California to save the birds, and the latest scientific theories about what’s going on. (published October 16, 2015)

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