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Puffins and friends suffer in washing-machine waves

Cyclones could make it difficult for seabirds such as little auks and puffins to hunt, which can lead to their starvation.
Atlantic puffin sitting on water

Cyclones churn the water so much that they make it hard for the Atlantic puffin to catch enough to eat. Credit: David Grémillet

After cyclones in the north Atlantic, droves of emaciated, dead seabirds can wash ashore on North American and European beaches. New research probes the cause of these mass-mortality events, called winter wrecks, and suggests that climate change might worsen the pattern1.

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Nature 597, 451 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02494-7

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  1. Clairbaux, M. et al. Curr. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.059 (2021)

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