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Seabirds raise fewer chicks as the pandemic keeps tourists away

By Richard Sima

14 January 2021

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The fear instilled by eagles can disturb breeding guillemots

Aron Hejdstrom

The birds were behaving strangely. Normally, the summer months would be a productive breeding season for the seabirds known as living on the island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. But, of course, 2020 wasn’t a normal year.

Lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic dramatically reduced human activity around the world. And, in many cases, .

The guillemots don’t seem to be one of them.

Jonas Hentati-Sundberg at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and his colleagues say…

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