Animal Die-off — United States
Lake Iliamna in Southwest Alaska is North America’s 8th largest lake, but nobody would mistake it for the Pacific Ocean. Not even a seabird. So when thousands of common murres were found dead at the lake — part of a massive die-off of a species whose preferred winter habitat is at sea — seabird experts were puzzled.
“We’ve talked about unprecedented things about this die-off. That’s another one” said John Piatt, research wildlife biologist for the US Geological Survey. Murres occasionally
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