| plastic ingestion by fulmars and shearwaters at sable island, nova scotia, canada. | plastic pollution is widespread in the marine environment, and plastic ingestion by seabirds is now widely reported for dozens of species. beached northern fulmars, great shearwaters, sooty shearwaters and cory's shearwaters are found on sable island, nova scotia, canada regularly, and they can be used to assess plastic pollution. all species except cory's shearwaters contained plastic debris in their gastrointestinal tracts. northern fulmars, sooty shearwaters and great shearwaters all showed h ... | 2014 | 25150895 |