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The Universe / registered in a tweet on Thursday afternoon in the account of the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador (MAE) gave the news: “We inform the public that # MAE has acted against death of seabirds (boobies ) Olon beaches and Curia. ”
The authorities have announced that the MFA would be 45 dead specimens collected off the coast of Santa Elena and southern Manabi. The affected species include the Peruvian booby (Sula variegata) and Nazca (Sula granti), both included in the category of ‘Least Concern’ from the list of endangered birds of the NGO International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Ben Hasse, waterfowl expert, noticed this week that the beaches had weak Peruvian boobies, after verifying that there are an unusual number of this species in Santa Elena: “In one hour I counted 300, a record.”
Hasse raises two hypotheses about the death of these birds. The first is that its appearance could be a prelude to what is coming El Niño, a phenomenon characterized by rising temperatures in the Pacific, which drives away fish that provide food for birds. The expert recalled that El Niño of 1997-1998 killed hundreds of specimens of birds occurred.
The second hypothesis is that this mortality answer fish poisoning these birds eat. “What we know is that the majority of dead birds were immature (not yet reached their reproductive age),” says Hasse.
The reported MAE doing autopsies in Quito to determine the causes of death multiple waterfowl.
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