France's BRETIGNOLLES-SUR-MER: Due to very strong winter storms that keep them from foraging, hundreds of dead guillemot seabirds have been discovered on French Atlantic beaches, according to conservationists.
The French League for Birds (LPO) has calculated that since the year began, more than 500 common guillemots, seabirds related to penguins and puffins, have been found dead along the French Atlantic coast.
Guillemot beachings occur frequently in the winter, according to Antoine Prevel, a volunteer for the NGO Sea Shepherd France, but not to the extent of the previous few weeks.
Scientist Jerome Fort of the CNRS research institute stated that "climate 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."
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