This article originally published at Seabirds are dying in large numbers along California beaches.

Dead seabirds seem to be piling up on our beaches like driftwood after a storm. If you have been observing higher-than-usual mortality among seabirds, the ...

Some of California's seabirds are increasingly starving to death, state scientists say. Starvation is the "primary cause of ...

Oregon biologists say a large number of young common murres are dying along the coast. They’re asking the public to leave the black-and-white seabirds alone as they try to survive. Oregon Department ...

More than a dozen dead common murres washed up on the beach in front of Haines on Tuesday, part of an unsettling trend happening across the state. According to biologists, the seabirds are starving to ...

About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population is showing no signs of recovery, according to new research. By Catrin Einhorn The first ...

CHARLESTON, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon coast visitors are seeing many dead and dying fledgling common murres right now on state beaches, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Wednesday. Some ...

One of Alaska’s most common seabirds is dying off in unusually high numbers, and though the majority of common murres found dead have been in Southcentral Alaska, Southeast Alaska also is affected.

Over just two days in early 2016, more than 6,000 penguin-like birds were found dead on the rocky beaches near Whittier, Alaska. Many of the dead birds, scientists observed, were clearly emaciated.