What is killing baby birds on the Oregon Coast?
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NEWPORT, Ore. - The dead birds showed up on the beach not far from where a dock from a Japanese port washed up.
The juxtaposition put attention on the bird bodies.
Oregon State University professor Rob Suryan says his research assistant counted 300 dead murres along a three mile strech along Agate Beach. Suryan says there are probably more out there.
And it's pelicans - not tsunami debris - to blame, the professor says. There is a bird colony near the Yaquina Head Lighthouse with thousands of murres living there. "On Monday night, a group of brown pelicans flew in and landed on our colony at a time when the adult murres are raising their chicks this time of year," said Suryan.
Suryan says many of the adults fled and many of the chicks fell into the ocean or were eaten by the pelicans. He says natural distruptions like this have happened before, but not this deadly.
"This looks like the final disruption at that colony where it's gonna be a near failure this year," said Suryan.
Since this is a natural occurence, Suryan says they're not going to cleanup or dispose of the birds.
See we don't need any stinkin EPA this is supposed to happen...
Canaries ?
Fireworks! Those evil fireworks are to blame.
Radiation perhaps?
I'm sure that global warming affected the Pelicans in some way or another.
 @Scotty9 Oh, Scotty9, it pains me to see you make light of the obvious murders of our brothers and sisters like this.
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I, myself, this very evening, erected a burning altar for these unfortunate victims of George W. Bush's war against the earth. (A note to my neighbors: Just because I put hickory chips on the fire, it does NOT mean I was barbecuing chicken. I swear it was tofu burgers!)
It's people! You must all abandon your homes and move to government housing. Oops.....that was my Obama coming out.
 @rem417 Thank you, Comrade! I was about to say the same thing, only I was going to specifically blame Republicans. All enlightened people know that Republicans are the scourge of the earth.
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And if your Obama is indeed coming out, I suggest you have some more KoolAid and let it all the way out. I drink the KoolAid constantly and look what it's done for me! I've become blissfully enlightened!!
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Froward!!
Tsunami debris or plastic trash is bright colored, looks like food, and is probably being consumed. It's getting into the food chain.
 @special effects Thank you, special effects! But you should have gone on to explain from where that tsunami debris and plastic trash is coming. You have, no doubt, heard (and surely believe it to be true) that George W. Bush himself caused global warming, every war of the last two centuries, high gas prices, and your grandmother's last attack of the gout. Well, you can add littering to his crimes against humanity.
i bet that they are not far from the beach or surf either?
The cycle of life continues.
 @RalphCramden I hate coming to this site as it is hard to to sign in and there is zero preview corrections for spelling etc.............
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Ralph your comment is short and sweet, and very correct......some years it is very high surf and the pictures are exactly the same and sometimes worse.