Word: grebe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waters off Santa Barbara may well have been exaggerated (TIME, June 13). Their findings may be confirmed later this month when a wildlife census will be made. Some ecological changes have already been detected. An aerial survey along a 30-mile stretch of beach recently counted only 200 grebe, compared with the past population of 4,000 to 7,000. Divers have discovered large patches of sunken oil that lie in gooey ribbons up to six feet thick along the edges of the reefs. Gray whales migrating from the Bering Sea to Baja California are avoiding the Santa Barbara Channel...