Nature World: The birds in question were common murres, white ocean flyers that are among North America's most abundant seabirds. They were emaciated and had apparently starved to death, then washed ashore. There were so many that the biologist, David Irons, at first took them for patches of snow.
"It was pretty horrifying," Irons said in an Associated Press article. "The live ones standing along the dead ones were even worse."
While this bird species has had die-offs in previous winters, Alaska is seeing...