More than two dozen common loons found dead at northern Michigan beach Botulism linked to more than 80,000 bird deaths
Botulism has been linked to more than 80,000 bird deaths around the Great Lakes since 1999.Photo: Courtesy of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
EMPIRE, Mich. – More than two dozen common loons have been found dead at a beach in northern Michigan.
Good Harbor Bay beach is at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Leelanau County. Officials believe the birds were likely killed by type E botulism and washed ashore.
Botulism has been linked to more than 80,000 bird deaths around the Great Lakes since 1999.
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