A sad sight.

From The Scottish Herald newspaper"

"An 'unprecedented number' of seabirds -- mostly guillemots and razorbills -- have been found starved to death on beaches from Orkney down to the north and east of England since late August.

There have also been reports of large numbers of the same species feeding unusually close inshore, and venturing several miles up Scottish rivers searching for fish to eat."

The possible causes of this catastrophe  involving thousands of birds  and still ongoing include a lack of suitable food and poisoning from a large algal bloom, the size of a large county, in the North Sea.