A huge section of warm ocean water in the northeast Pacific Ocean dubbed 'the Blob' killed as many as one million seabirds in less than 12 months -- and new 'blobs' are now forming off the coast of Washington state and New Zealand
The birds, a fish-eating species called the common murre, were severely emaciated and appeared to have died of starvation between the summer of 2015 and the spring of 2016, washing up along North America's west coast, from California to Alaska.Now, scientists say they know what caused it: a huge section of warm ocean water in the northeast Pacific Ocean dubbed"the Blob.
These fish eat the same small fish as the murres, and there simply wasn't enough to go around.A colony of common murres.The Blob devastated the murres' population. With insufficient food, breeding colonies across the entire region had reproductive difficulties for years afterward, the study said. Not only did the population decline dramatically, but the murres couldn't replenish those numbers.During the 2015 breeding season, three colonies didn't produce a single chick.
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