British Seabirds choke to death on migrant fish - scientists baffled.


	British Seabirds choke to death on migrant fish - scientists baffled.

JohnWaterman

2-17-2008 7:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b1d01e5a-b280-4d68-9611-b0d8d477a717/64849110-0F1E-4697-84AA-E92087B8C7C6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science"><P id="stand-first">Baffled scientists warn of a 'catastrophic' impact as snake pipefish flood into British waters</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/7AB8EF54-8DAA-4615-9CF4-ECC674DE12B6" alt="A puffin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science"><P>Britain's sea birds are facing a deadly new threat from a population explosion of strange, seahorse-like creatures in our coastal waters. The snake pipefish, virtually unknown around the UK in 2002, has undergone a massive, baffling and dangerous expansion since then, scientists have discovered.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science"><P>Divers report seeing hundreds on single dives, while dozens of pipefish - which can grow to more than 18 inches in length - have been found in the nests of puffins, kittiwakes, terns and other sea birds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science">chicks are choking to death on the rigid, bony bodies of pipefish, while adults are feeding on them despite the fact they have very little nutritional value</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science">The explosive growth of the snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus) in the past five years has been one of the most mysterious events affecting Britain's coastal waters in recent years</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/64849110-0F1E-4697-84AA-E92087B8C7C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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