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Source: BirdLife Australia
Hundreds of dead seabirds washing up on some of Sydney’s most iconic beaches have sparked concern among locals, with experts saying this number of deaths is unprecedented.
Residents in Bondi took to social media this week revealing their shock at discovering scores of dead birds dotted along the famous beach.
One man said he saw “hundreds” over the weekend.
And Bondi wasn’t the only beach to be plagued with corpses, with residents in Collaroy on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and those in Cronulla in Sydney’s south also saying dead bird numbers were far beyond anything they’d seen before.
According to the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, dead seabirds washing up along the state’s coastline is nothing new for this time of year.
The birds discovered on beaches are shearwaters who are returning from Alaska to islands off the southern coast of Australia to breed.
Due to the gargantuan 14,000km journey, many birds die of exhaustion in an event the Office of Environment and Heritage describes as “an unfortunate but natural occurrence”.
However, there is concern that numbers of dead birds washing up on beaches has risen.
Seabird watchers in Victoria who await the arrival of shearwaters annually raised the alarm in September when thousands of birds failed to arrive despite their normally meticulous travel itinerary.
President of BirdLife Warrnambool Peter Barrand told Yahoo News Australia the drastically reduced numbers which have arrived at Griffiths Island at Port Fairy in Victoria was “very concerning”.
Courtesy of au.news.yahoo.com
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