Kelly (8 Sep 2006)
"Bird deaths puzzle Unalaska"


Is this a magnetic field fluctuation since birds use their
internal radar to steer? or more....what killed them?

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Bird deaths puzzle Unalaska
SHEARWATERS: Captain said hail of creatures hit his boat for up to 30 minutes.

By ALEX deMARBAN  and CRAIG MEDRED, Anchorage Daily News

Published: September  1, 2006

More than 1,600 sea bird carcasses have washed onto Unalaska
shores over the last two days in a mysterious die-off that
scientists are scrambling to understand.

Some say they may have died of hunger. Others say they're
smashing into boats.

Maybe it's both, some scientists said.

You can read the full story online at:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8145569p-8037818c.html