Adult albatrosses found gnawed to death by mice on 3rd remote island

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Mice had previously been seen attacking seabird chicks — but in April researchers found eight dead adults. And this new development is concerning conservationists.

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[DAR]

Won't the rodenticide pollute the ground water, due to placement as well as from the decaying of the mice bodies after death?? Surely the birds drink the fresh water on the island.