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Cleanup aims to save 10,000 birds each year

Work will begin on Midway Atoll next month to remove lead-based paint that dooms 10,000 Laysan albatross chicks each year to a heartbreaking and apparently painful death. “It”s awful and horrifically tragic to see them die,”said Myra Finklestein, an assistant researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz who has studied the chicks” deformities and deaths for more than a decade…

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