Food security doesn't just mean high oil prices affecting fuel needed to grow, harvest and distribute food for humans.

Food security is also affected by higher ocean temperatures.
A RNZ interview with researchers monitoring seabirds has some very disturbing findings.
The food chain is becoming more fragile by the minute.
#climate
#climatechange
#oceanwarming
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#seabirds

A lack of food, due to the impacts of climate change, has meant higher death rates for seabird chicks this year.

University of Auckland Associate Professor Brendon Dunphy, research fellow Dr Edin Whitehead and master’s student Isabella Brown have been monitoring the nests of diving petrels and fluttering shearwaters in the gulf since October last year.

And found the outlook for these seabirds' survival is bleaker than expected.

This was because adults birds were having to leave the nest for longer to find food - with GPS tracking showing some birds flying more than 200 kilometres from their nest.

The Hauraki Gulf is a global seabird hotspot, where about 70 species breed and forage.

Five species breed nowhere else in the world but the Gulf. Brendon Dunphy and Isabella Brown discuss the findings

Seabird chicks die as parents fly far away for food https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019028358/seabird-chicks-die-as-parents-fly-far-away-for-food

New paper by Hina, Akiko, Fred, Yan et al.:
Video evidence of pteropod predation highlights diet flexibility in Adélie penguins.
Marine Biology (2026) 173:69
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-026-04827-4

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No lyrics
Just sea birds

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeKi6ZkbOw

Eider ducks or something else?

Definitely ducks
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Fulmers have arrived. Can't miss their flying style.

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