Witnessing Extinction by Casey Tucker, American Avian Conservation & Research Institute and Otterbein University

Gannet. Photo by Casey Tucker.

Warming oceans affect food availability for birds and as a result, seabirds are dying off rapidly around the globe. This year Little Penguins have been washing up along the shores of New Zealand by the thousands. Autopsies have revealed that the birds starved to death because they couldn’t get the prey they depend on in the warmer ocean waters.

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