Bird flu strikes endangered SA cormorants

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Bird flu strikes endangered SA cormorants
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Bird flu is ravaging South Africa's endangered Cape cormorants, killing as much as five percent of the world's remaining population.

Early this year, hundreds of cormorant chicks were abandoned in a startling incident that conservationists said may have been caused by hunger., killing as much as five percent of the world's remaining population, a conservation group said Wednesday.

The long-necked birds live along the coast from South Africa to Angola, and they number only 234,000 adults.

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