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The Effects of Oil from Ships on Certain Sea-birds

Nature volume 106, page 830 (1921)Cite this article

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SIR ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY has recently directed attention to the probable effects upon our fisheries of the discharge of oil from ships into the sea. I should like to refer to another side of this matter, viz. the effects upon certain species of sea-birds.

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    WALTER E. COLLINGE

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COLLINGE, W. The Effects of Oil from Ships on Certain Sea-birds. Nature 106, 830 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106830a0

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