National Geographic reports that Iceland‘s seabird colonies are slowly wanishing and that climate and ocean changes can be blamed for the population‘s decline.
According to the article, which was published online yesterday, the warming oceans are driving away the bird‘s prey, resulting in mass mortality among puffins, kittiwakws and terns.
Mass mortality of kittiwakes is evident, said Freydís Vigfúsdóttir, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, England, in an interview with Nat Geo reporter. You can see in the late summer lots of 'chick pancakes' in the nest.
National Geographic reports that Iceland‘s seabird colonies are slowly wanishing and that climate and ocean changes can be blamed for the population‘s decline.
According to the article, which was published online yesterday, the warming oceans are driving away the bird‘s prey, resulting in mass mortality among puffins, kittiwakws and terns.
Mass mortality of kittiwakes is evident, said Freydís Vigfúsdóttir, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, England, in an interview with Nat Geo reporter. You can see in the late summer lots of 'chick pancakes' in the nest.
