{"id":16660,"date":"2024-03-08T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/more-than-500-dead-seabirds-wash-up-on-french-beaches\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:55:34","slug":"more-than-500-dead-seabirds-wash-up-on-french-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/more-than-500-dead-seabirds-wash-up-on-french-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 dead seabirds wash up on French beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Hundreds of seabirds have been found dead on French Atlantic beaches, exhausted by unusually heavy winter storms that prevent them from feeding, environmentalists said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            More than 500 common guillemots \u2013 seabirds related to penguins and puffins \u2013 have been found dead along the French Atlantic coast since the year began, French League for Birds has estimated.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Antoine Prevel, a volunteer for the nonprofit Sea Shepherd France, said guillemot beachings happen regularly in winter, but not to the scale of the past weeks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Scientists say it is likely the birds died from exhaustion due to difficult conditions at sea.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cClimate change is an indirect cause, as it increases the frequency and intensity of storms, particularly winter storms, which are the main reason for massive strandings of seabirds,\u201d said Jerome Fort, a scientist from France\u2019s National\u00a0Center\u00a0for Scientific\u00a0Research.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Poisoning by micro plastics and chemical contamination can also weaken the birds, and the fish they prey on have become rare and relocated closer to shore due to climate change and overfishing, Fort added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Guillemots cannot survive without food for two or three days, as they have few energy reserves and need to feed almost constantly.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cIn storms like we have seen recently, these birds find it hard to feed properly and will die of exhaustion,\u201d Fort said.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of seabirds have been found dead on French Atlantic beaches, exhausted by unusually heavy winter storms that prevent them from feeding, environmentalists said. More than 500 common guillemots \u2013 seabirds related to penguins and puffins \u2013 have been found dead along the French Atlantic coast since the year began, French League for Birds has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}