Plastic Habitat

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Lobularia maritima (habitat with marine debris and Black footed and Laysan Albatrosses), Midway Atoll, Northwest coast Eastern Island Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Lobularia maritima (habitat with marine debris and Black footed and Laysan Albatrosses), Midway Atoll, Northwest coast Eastern Island Island : photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Sesuvium portulacastrum (habitat with marine debris and view of Spit Island), Midway Atoll, Northwest coast Eastern Island Island : photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Lepturus repens (growing among marine debris), Midway Atoll, Eastern Island : photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 6 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Tournefortia argentea (habitat with Laysan Albatross chick and marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Tournefortia argentea (habitat with Laysan Albatross chicks and marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Boerhavia repens (habitat with Laysan Albatross chick and marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Marine debris and Laysan Albatross chick, Midway Atoll, Spit Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Tournefortia argentea (habitat with marine debris and Laysan Albatross chick), Midway Atoll, Spit Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



Tournefortia argentea (habitat with marine debris), Midway Atoll, Spit Island: photo by Forest & Kim Starr, 3 June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii



This Laysan Albatross chick has been accidentally fed plastic by its parents and died as a result: photo by Duncan Wright, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2006



Dead Laysan Albatross chick with ingested plastic in its stomach: image by Innotata, 30 June 2010, from Lindsay C. Young, Cynthia Vanderlip, David C. Duffy, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Scott A. Shaffer: Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses? (Public Library of Science, 2009)