{"id":794708,"date":"2026-10-07T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794708\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:08:09","slug":"dead-seabird-tests-carried-out-after-port-of-tyne-nurdle-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794708\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead seabird tests carried out after Port of Tyne nurdle spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Research is being carried out to find out how a microplastic spillage has affected coastal sea bird populations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 19 July tonnes of microplastics known as nurdles were spilled into the River Tyne following a collision between ships at the Port of Tyne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A series of necropsies are now taking place at the Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats on dead birds gathered after the spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Turner, coordinator at North East England Beached Bird Surveys said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve already seen samples from contents of stomachs of suspected regurgitation which contain nurdles.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Necropsies will be carried out on a variation of seabirds gathered from across the North East including eight guillemots, five herring gulls, a gannet and a pink-footed goose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research is being carried out to find out how a microplastic spillage has affected coastal sea bird populations.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-794708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}