Changing fish diet killing baby birds, say Maine researchers

[Donna]

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/29/news/state/changing-fish-diet-killing-baby-birds-say-maine-researchers/ Story

A common tern feeds its chick a butterfish. Tern chicks cannot eat the wide fish, they can only eat long, slender fish. Because of a lack of herring available to terns this summer, many tern chicks died as their bird parents tried to feed them the large fish.

[MAK]

  Poor little birds!