Midway - a must see!

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9. I hope everyone knows about the great Pacific ocean garbage patch

in the middle of nowhere, tons of floating plastic. I wonder how much of the plastic in the birds came from there. Or whether they picked it up randomly.

You can imagine how the poor birds see something brightly colored floating in the water and think it is a nice fish and instead choke on a piece of plastic.

On the other hand, it's not entirely clear whether the plastic killed the birds. Some of them had so much in their stomachs, it must have been there for a while. Possibly the plastic wasn't really a problem until it built up to very high levels and blocked stomach function.