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death of beauty

The death of thousands of seagulls and flamingos on the coast of the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran that happened in 2020 and 2021. More than 50,000 birds died, which the government declared botulism to be the cause.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 01.2021
Date Uploaded: 10.2023
Photo Location: behshahr, Iran
Copyright: © mohammad hossein moheimani