Scottish puffins found with plastic pellets in their stomachs

Friday, March 27, 2015 - 07:30 in Earth & Climate

Autopsies of dead puffins collected from the Isle of May in Scotland have revealed that, along with their usual diet of sand eels, these charismatic seabirds have been eating plastic pellets, known as nurdles.

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