Mostly death by ingestion. From memory, chicks are affected as well.
There's been a fair bit in the northern hemisphere press on the
subject over the last few months.
Regards, Laurie
On 08/08/2008, at 12:50 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
I didn't know that plastic was killing significant numbers of
seabirds.
Are you referring to deaths by entanglement, or do they swallow bits
of
it as well? Any idea which species it is mainly affecting?
Peter Shute
wrote on Thursday, 7 August 2008
7:32
PM:
That is only a drop in the ocean, pardon the pun, with the
Sydney Sunday
Magazine estimating that plastic kills more than a million seabirds,
100,000 whales seals and turtles etc plus an article that the
bush meat
trade in Africa is pushing most African primates to extinction, so
humans are a non caring destructive lot.
Cheers Chris
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