Warmer Ocean Temps, Lack of Food Driving Stalwart Seabirds from Mexico (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Warmer Ocean Temps, Lack of Food Driving Stalwart Seabirds from Mexico (4 of 4)

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Massive departure of Elegant Terns from nesting colony in Isla Rasa after breeding failure in 2010. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 26, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Velarde at Universidad Veracruzana in Boca del Rio, Mexico, and colleagues was titled, 'Warm oceanographic anomalies and fishing pressure drive seabird nesting north.'

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[Credit: E. Velarde]

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