Lost at Sea: Why the Birds You Don’t See Are Fading Away.
The Farallons today are a small portal to the past, when seabirds were abundant everywhere. More than half a million birds were nesting in the refuge when I visited the main island in June 2017. On steep slopes and sparsely vegetated level ground, surrounded by deep-blue water roiling with seals and sea lions, were puffins and guillemots and cormorants, tiny plump Cassin’s auklets, weirdly horned rhinoceros auklets, and, in my opinion, way too many western gulls.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/07/seabird-crisis-conservation-birds-oceans/
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