On Sunday, Austin Ahmasuk went along the beach to his camp at the Sinuk River, about 28 miles from Nome, and shortly after hitting West Beach past the port, he found one dead seabird on the shore.

Dead Murres At Boat Harbor

Residents concern over die-offs persist

Sea bird mortality observed on southeast end of Homer Spit

More reports of dead Murres observed in the Bristol Bay region.

A large number of bird die-offs

Sea bird deaths

Dead seabirds found in Goodnews Bay.

Dead birds in harbor

Dead birds on beach

Dead seagulls and magpies

A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat.

For the third year in a row, seabirds are washing up dead along the coastline in Alaska. Hundreds of birds have been discovered along a stretch of the Bering Sea, on the Pribilof Islands and as far north as Deering. Julia Parrish said the thin bodies of the dead fulmars and shearwaters washing up on shore suggest the birds are struggling to find enough to eat. So far, about 800 have been discovered along the coast of the Bering Sea. Parish said early lab results don’t point to disease. It looks like the birds are starving to death.

Large shearwater die-off at a Pilot Point beach.

Several ill or dead tufted and horned puffins were found on the shores of St. Paul Island.

Over 100 dead puffins, mostly tufted, have been found in Saint George, Alaska.

11-6-13 Dead seabirds - Nanwalek, Alaska. USA