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Large die-off of tufted puffins in Pribilof Islands seems linked to unusual warm spell

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News November 15, 2016
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Earlier, it was murres and whales that had been turning up dead in large numbers on Alaska beaches or in Alaska waters. Now it is puffins, bright-beaked birds that are icons of Alaska’s marine communities.

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