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Recently, colleagues from SEO/BirdLife (www.seo.org) published a really interesting paper on the "Incidence of entanglements with marine debris by northern gannets (Morus bassanus) in the non-breeding grounds" in Marine Pollution Bulletin (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X1300372X). Rodríguez et al. found that approximately the 1% of all counted gannets showed an entangled plastic debris (mainly red-colored objects). Authors also found that most affected birds were immature, as we were able to observe during the JUVENA survey last September.




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