A Picture is Worth ... What's For Supper?
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA 
on 08.30.07
[Photo remove by request of owner.]
Cynthia Vanderlip, manager of the State of Hawaii's Kure Atoll Wildlife Sanctuary, cut open the dead body of a fledgling Laysan albatross (nicknamed "Shed Bird") to find more than half a pound of plastic in its stomach.
Concentrated on the right are all the items retrieved from inside the bird: Plastic lighters, bottle caps, and other plastics that are carelessly tossed often wind up floating on the ocean surface, where they are occasionally consumed by foraging seabirds and other marine creatures.
Larger images, if you can, y'know, stomach them, can be found below. ::Oceans Alive (PDF) and ::Sierra
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