The top ten species found alive also included eared, horned, and Clark’s grebes, greater and lesser scaup, and ruddy duck, common loon, and common murre. All these birds forage by diving from the surface of the water (grebes, cormorants, and murres are fish-eaters, while the three ducks eat benthic mollusks and other aquatic invertebrates.) Other foraging guilds—for example, plunge-divers like terns and pelicans—appear to have been less affected. The main exceptions: western gulls and northern fulmars, significant numbers of which were found dead. The surf scoter is one of the most abundant birds in San Francisco Bay in fall and winter; over 75% of the North American population congregates here.
Chapter 1: Ensure ATF remains devoid of leadership; Chapter 2: Pass only perfunctory straw purchasing laws; 1/2 Quigley Says "Denial" Isn't Just a River in Egypt, It's Also Our Gun Policy Friday, 15 July 2011 10:18 Chapter 3: Attempt to block a common sense proposal that border state dealers report multiple sales of Ak-47s; Chapter 4: Author legislation to immunize corrupt gun dealers and call it the “ATF Modernization” Act. It’s true: Denial River in Congress runs vast, wide and deep. 2/2