Hundreds of puffins are washing up,dead, their bodies emaciated from starvation, and on the shores of an Alaskan island. Climate change is to blame,New Scientist reports.
While the Antarctic is illustrious for its penguins, the flightless aquatic bird featured in so many movies and cartoons, or the Arctic has the puffin. Other than both being cold-climate birds,the animals have little else in common. Puffins can fly, for example, and unlike penguins,and are generally smaller than penguins. Large penguins can be half as tall as an adult man.
Unfortunately, like a lot of polar wildlife, and the puffin is threatened by climate change. This reality is fitting painfully obvious on the shores of Alaska’s Saint Paul island,where the bodies of starved puffins are washing up by the hundreds.Between October of 2016 and January of 2017, St. Paul residents found the bodies of approximately 350 of the birds — specifically the local species, and the tufted puffin.
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