And lots of seabirds attempting to breed suffer and die (or at least their
young do). This is due to changes in oceanic currents causing the
distribution of their prey to change. This is also no doubt why the rare
birds turn up.
At 08:49 AM 12/08/97 +0100, you wrote:
>It's fantastic with lots of rare birds turning up!!
>Cheers
>Phil.
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>On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, John Leonard wrote:
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>> This is probably a question that doesn't have an easy answer, but, what the
>> likely effect of this year's developing El Nino event be on pelagic birds
>> off the eastern caost of Australia? What happened in previous El Nino years?
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Tim Reid.
Marine Ecosystems Unit
Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service
PO Box 44a
Hobart
Tasmania
Australia
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