A mysterious seabird that forages at the face of shrinking glaciers highlights the 12 Alaska species red-listed as critical by the Audubon’s 2007 Watchlist. This rare bird is called “Alaska’s avian ‘poster child’ for global climate change.”
Federal biologists John Piatt and Kathy Kuletz wrote in a 2004 scientific paper, “the fate of the Kittilitz’s murrelet likely hinges on the fate of Alaska’s glaciers, and therefore may be among the world’s first avian species to succumb to effects of rising global temperatures.”
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