Kaikōura
Wildlife Rescue manager Sabrina Luecht said it has been a "summer of
death" for seabirds in Kaikōura this year.
Sick
and dead birds were handed in or being washed up on the beaches, and other
prominent seabird places had the same issues, she said.
Luecht
said there were still a lot of dead birds being found and the high rate
of fatalities was probably due to neurotoxin poisoning from an algae bloom or
starvation because of the La Nina weather conditions when warmer water and
different currents affected food sources.
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