40 sea birds found dead is ‘mysterious and worrying’ along coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa

THE results of postmortems on three of the almost 40 birds found dead along the Port Elizabeth coastline recently have proved inconclusive.

The mysterious deaths of the birds – Cape gannets, cormorants, African penguins and seagulls – was very worrying, experts said.

While signs of starvation were found in most of the birds, the results of the postmortems done at the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre were inconclusive and they attributed the deaths to three possible factors – the weather, infections or man-made conditions.