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Keeping an eye on feathered friends http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1231371510
"The information gathered is public domain for scientists," Hands said. "One of the most important things is to look for trends. If something is unusual, they would have wondered what’s going on in the water. The birds are the canary in the coal mine. There is a certain standard number of birds we expect to see. If there's an increase or decrease, there could be something important going on, and this is our first notification.
"The last two years, we have been having a problem in declines with water birds.".... "They are a great indicator for the whole ecosystem," bird counter Charlie Wright said. "It's a really good way to monitor the health of the water."
Wright said sea birds are important indicators because they follow the fish populations.
"They follow the herring and other small fish," he said. "We don't know how they do it, they just do."
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