About 20 to 30 medium-sized birds with black backs and white bellies were found spaced out along the entire beach of the island.

"Within a week we saw thousands of shearwaters along the beaches, and witnessed hundreds dead. They would sit on the tideline unable to walk, foraging on dead fish that had washed ashore and trying to feed on the fish in the nets of the set net sites as well."

The timing coincides with other sea bird deaths reported in St. Paul Island, Pilot Point, and Ugashik.

Coccolithophores and the carbon cycle Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations are resulting in both warmer sea surface temperatures due to the

Northern Harvest Sea Farms is busy cleaning pens of dead salmon, and the province's head aquaculture vet says higher-than-average water temperatures are to blame.

This is the 6th observation on this topic received in LEO Network from Southwest Alaska since July 22, 2019.

Nine short-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) were seen floating in the Kuskokwim river, directly in front of Bethel. The birds were acting disoriented and farther up the Kuskokwim than normal.

More than 50 birds and a seal were found along the shoreline.