Mystery Illness Afflicting Hundreds Of Northern California Seabirds.

More than 2,500 starving and injured seabirds have been rescued in Northern California just since the beginning of this year.

It’s a mystery why there are suddenly so many of them. Some are being treated here in the Bay Area.

The birds are common murres; many are orphaned chicks, found abandoned on beaches from Monterey to Mendocino.