More on bird deaths on cruise ships.

Image from Dare to Bird website. I wrote a letter to a number of bird advocacy groups (Audubon, etc) about the deaths of birds on cruise ships. If you want to see more, do a search on YouTube using "birds dead on cruise ship" or something similar. My letter is below. I have recently become aware of the fact that countless birds are killed every year in the cruise ship industry. This stems from my recent cruise aboard the Noordam , a ship belonging to Holland America. While on a cruise to Alaska (September 14-28, 2025) there was the horrendous spectacle of thousands of birds flying about the ship very early in the morning. There were many dead ones on various surfaces and a few live ones that were hopping about. I researched the phenomenon and discovered this was far from an isolated incident. It seems that, particularly during migration season, thousands of birds are killed every year on cruise ships. This isn’t isolated to...