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At least 1,000 adult and adolescent Laysan albatross, along with thousands of chicks, perished as waves reaching 5ft-tall rolled over the low-lying Midway islands about four hours after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck on Friday.
Many drowned or were buried under debris, said Barry W. Stieglitz, the project leader for the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuges.
Biologists are less sure how many ground-nesting bonin petrels may have died, because these birds live in underground burrows and would have been buried in areas covered by waves.
Spare a kind thought to these birds.
Say a prayer to the departed ones, too.
May they evolve to higher forms.
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One response to “Rescuing the seabirds, victims of the tsunami in Hawaii”
Poor thing, they in such a pathetic state