Beachside Sea of Okhotsk is covered with dead birds

[Shiloh]

Source: http://severdv.ru/news/show/?id=28874&r=17&p=


Beachside Sea of Okhotsk is covered with dead birds

It is not yet known, that has caused mass mortality of Pacific Toporkov

MAGADAN, July 30, North RFE. Beach Bay Nagaeva littered with dead birds, ipatkami or Pacific Toporkov). Two years ago, at the same time, the coast of the Okhotsk Sea was also filled with dead birds: when to release the cause of death for Pacific Toporkov thought storm. Ostensibly younger and weaker individuals are not able to cope with the elements and therefore died. While it is not impossible version poisoning. Also, as then, the infection specialists say with caution, writes "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Magadan.

- Perhaps the birds and this year something naglotalis, and it should find the staff vetsluzhby. - Looks Magadan ornithologist Igor ROADS. - But there is another version: because birds of this species for food dive under water, they could just get online, get in them and die. After their release on the shore. But the massive infection more likely.

Specialists from the Rospotrebnadzor and Россельхознадзора of Magadan Region are continuing to investigate the cause of death of birds.

- First and foremost, our laboratory has verified the dead chistikovyh for avian flu - this is not confirmed, - said Deputy Head of the Office of the Magadan region Россельхознадзора Vladimir neck. - Now we have not yet completed studies on the presence in the bodies of birds toxicants (mercury and similar substances). But also do not exclude that the loss of birds (they were very weak) - the result of elemental hunger. Perhaps they did not have enough food. To know the truth, it would be better to equip the expedition of Virology, scientists, ornithologists, ecologists, that they carefully examined the area of the peninsula Kony to Magadan. Generally, the death of any living creature for unclear reasons - a sign of a very disturbing ...

It is not yet known, that with the birds. Some analysts argue that they could die from a large dose of radiation.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Beachside Sea of Okhotsk is covered with dead birds

Source: http://www.vostokmedia.com/n52049.html

Mass Puffins Mortality in Magadan

12:02, 03.08.2009 | Приморский край
The dead birds are scattered about the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk

MAGADAN. August 3. VOSTOK-MEDIA ? Las weekend the whole beach of Nagayeva Bay was scattered with dead birds - horned puffins (Fratercula corniculata).
At the same time two years ago, the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk was full of the dead birds. According to the official line, the storm was considered to cause puffins? death back then. Allegedly, the young and weak birds could not withstand the gale and died. Experts, though, did not rule out then that puffins were poisoned. Again, the experts are hesitant to claim it as poisoning.
The birds may have fed themselves with some toxic stuff and the Vet Service is to investigate, says Igor Dorogoy, Magadan ornithologist, -?But the birds might as well have got in the toils, entangle themselves and die. Then they might have been cast ashore, but the mass poisoning is more likely.?
Experts from Rospotrebnadzor and Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance) for Magadan Region are investigating the cause of birds? death at present time.
?First of all, our laboratory examined the dead puffins for signs of avian flu, but the assumption did not prove true?, - says Vladimir Sheiko, Deputy Head of Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance for Magadan Region. ? ?We?re still examining the birds for presence of toxicants (quick silver and the like) in their bodies. It is not ruled out, though, that the birds might have died of sheer starvation.?
They might have lacked food (the birds feed on very small-sized fish). It would be better to organize an expedition consisting of virologists, ornithologists and environmentalists so that they could thoroughly examine the water area between the Koni Peninsula and Magadan. In fact, an unidentified cause of death of any living creature is a troubling sign.
It is uncertain by now, what has happened to the birds (some experts believe that even insignificant dose of radiation might have caused their death), but the birds are still lying on the shore of Nagayevskaya Bay.

 

[tropical]

Re: Beachside Sea of Okhotsk is covered with dead birds

#2:"some experts believe that even insignificant dose of radiation might have caused their death"
#1: "large dose"


First "large dose", than "insignificant dose".

There are no "insignificant" radiation doses realy.

Two storms in two years with the same deadly efect are not probable, the birds stated very weak additionaly.

If they died from starvation, not toxicals, than a change in fishery policies there are urgently needed ...

Toxicals seems an more reality option.

 

[Emily]

Re: Beachside Sea of Okhotsk is covered with dead birds

I wondered about some old mine tailings being disturbed and creating toxic waters, but with anything environmental, I wondered why just Puffins? Hope they do get virologists investigating.

Soldado virus
"In the summer of 1973, about 5,000 pairs of adult Sooty Terns abandoned a specific part of their breeding grounds on Bird Island in the Seychelles. Incubated eggs and newly hatched chicks were left unattended and the area was not reoccupied in 1974. Numerous Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis occurred in the deserted part in both years, but few or none in the area where bird breeding was normal. Persons visiting the deserted area were bitten by many ticks and experienced severe pruritus persisting for several days. In 1973 and 1974, Soldado (SOL) virus (Hughes serogroup) was isolated from the ticks taken on Bird Island from the ground and from sick and not visibly sick chicks of the Sooty Tern, and also from nests of the Blue-faced Booby on Des Noeufs Island. When ticks from the ground and from Sooty Tern chicks were fed on domestic chicks, they transmitted SOL virus and caused the death of their hosts. Soldado virus was previously known only from O. (A.) capensis-group ticks infesting marine bird colonies on islands off Trinidad and in a lake in Ethiopia. We have also isolated SOL virus from another species of the subgenus Alectorobius from Wales, Great Britain. Marine bird migrations undoubtedly account for the remarkably extensive distribution of SOL virus. The role of migration in the mechanisms and dynamics of tick and virus distribution, and the comparative growth cycles of Hughes serogroup viruses in Ornithodoros ticks, remain to be determined for a better epidemiological understanding of this agent."

Seems like a stressed species overall:

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...o-puffins-in-bid-to-halt-decline-1726201.html

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.co...-up-just-another-victim-of-global-warming/172

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Beachside Sea of Okhotsk is covered with dead birds

The Horned Puffin nests in the cliffs along the Sea of Okhotsk.

We've had some very strong storms (extremely heavy rains) blow through here in the last 2 weeks. (Unfortunately, they missed the interior area with all the wildfires). Those storms come through that area before going up the Aleutian chain, then on to here. Those storms could have knocked down their nests and also made it near impossible to successfully find food. I'll agree with the starvation theory until proven otherwise.

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