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The short-tailed shearwater, also known as the muttonbird in Australia, migrates 15,000km from Alaska to Australia and back, but many are feared to have failed to make the journey this year. Photograph: John Harrison/Wikipedia
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Migratory short-tailed shearwaters are Australia’s most numerous seabird, but washed-up carcasses, late arrivals and low numbers have conservationists worried. The carcasses began to arrive in July. Residents around the Bristol Bay area of Alaska found thousands of dead short-tailed shearwaters washing up on remote beaches, and sent samples to Anchorage...Two months later, observers in Australia began to register similar concerns.

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