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http:\/\/conservationmagazine.org\/2014\/02\/plastic-ingestion-seabirds-worse-thought\/<\/a>\n\nPlastic ingestion by seabirds is worse than you thought\nFebruary 12th, 2014\n\nEveryone has heard of the so-called Pacific Garbage Patch. The imagery\nis compelling: a giant, continent-sized, swirling vortex of plastic lawn\nchairs and newspapers, red party cups and potato chip bags. The truth is\njust as troubling, but perhaps less narratively gripping. There actually\nare millions of small pieces of plastic floating atop some 5000 square\nkilometers of the Pacific (and elsewhere), but they&rsquo;re mostly\nmicroscopic. It&rsquo;s estimated that there are about .4 bits of plastic for\nevery cubic meter of surface water.\n\nFloating bits of human waste are not new. The first documented discovery\nof a seabird who had swallowed a bit of trash may be in an 1838 letter\nfrom Jonathan Couch to the Linnean Society in which he describes his\ninvestigation into the stomach contents of a Wilson&rsquo;s storm petrel that\nhad washed up: &ldquo;On examining the stomach of a stormy petrel Mr. Couch\nfound about half an inch of a common tallow candle, of a size so\ndisproportionate to the bill and gullet of the bird, that it seems\nwonderful how it could have been able to swallow it.&rdquo;\n\nPerhaps the first formal scientific study of the ingestion of plastic by\nseabirds was conducted in the 1960s, which focused on Laysan Albatross.\nBy the 1990s, researchers had identified plastic in the stomachs of more\nthan 35% of the world&rsquo;s seabird species. Even now, an estimated twenty\nmillion new items find their way into the sea each day.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/conservationmagazine.org\/2014\/02\/plastic-ingestion-seabirds-worse-thought\/ Plastic ingestion by seabirds is worse than you thought February 12th, 2014 Everyone has heard of the so-called Pacific Garbage Patch. The imagery is compelling: a giant, continent-sized, swirling vortex of plastic lawn chairs and newspapers, red party cups and potato chip bags. The truth is just as troubling, but perhaps less narratively gripping. There actually are millions of small pieces of plastic floating atop some 5000 square kilometers of the Pacific (and elsewhere), but they&rsquo;re mostly microscopic. It&rsquo;s estimated that there are about .4 bits of plastic for every cubic meter of surface water. Floating bits of human waste are not new. The first documented discovery of a seabird who had swallowed a bit of trash may be in an 1838 letter from Jonathan Couch to the Linnean Society in which he describes his investigation into the stomach contents of a Wilson&rsquo;s storm petrel that had washed up: &ldquo;On examining the stomach of a stormy petrel Mr. Couch found about half an inch of a common tallow candle, of a size so disproportionate to the bill and gullet of the bird, that it seems wonderful how it could have been able to swallow it.&rdquo; Perhaps the first formal scientific study of the ingestion of plastic by seabirds was conducted in the 1960s, which focused on Laysan Albatross. By the 1990s, researchers had identified plastic in the stomachs of more than 35% of the world&rsquo;s seabird species. 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