Large die-off of Alaska seabirds from disease never found before in state history -- Official: It's super, super common... except it's first time -- Hundreds dead per km²; Continued to wash ashore -- 'Relatively' natural; Witness: Head flopped backward, appeared to have seizure, then dropped dead (AUDIO)

'Large die-off of Alaska seabirds from disease never found before in state history -- Official: It's super, super common... except it's first time -- Hundreds dead per km²; Continued to wash ashore -- 'Relatively' natural; Witness: Head flopped backward, appeared to have seizure, then dropped dead (AUDIO)'

Anchorage Daily News: Hundreds of dead sea birds found on the beaches of St. Lawrence Island were the victims of Alaska’s first detected avian cholera outbreak, officials said this week. One hunter in Gambell spotted a bird on the beach, its head flopping backward [...] The bird acted like it was having a seizure. Then it dropped dead. [...] Gay Sheffield, a Nome-based biologist with the University of Alaska’s Marine Advisory Program [...] received three bird carcasses: a northern fulmar [...] a thick-billed murre [...] and a black crested auklet [...] “For this disease, actually, these numbers are really small, which makes me think there’s a lot more birds that died somewhere else that we didn’t see” [said Kimberlee Beckmen, Fish & Game veterinarian.]

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