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Urea pollution turns tides toxic

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Kamikaze gulls that inspired Hitchcock's The Birds may have been doomed by leaky septic tanks.

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  1. Cochlan, W. P., Herndon, J. & Kudela, R. M., Harmful Algae doi:10.1016/j.hal.2008.08.008 (2008).

  2. Kudela, R. M., Lane, J. Q. & Cochlan, W. P., Harmful Algae doi:10.1016/j.hal.2008.08.019 (2008).

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Coombs, A. Urea pollution turns tides toxic. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1190

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