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So many long range migratory seabirds, they're okay. What will happen with them is they'll sort of tuck themselves into the eye and they actually have a bit of a buffet. Because of all the upwelling from the storm, it will bring all sorts of sea life closer to the surface and put it into a position where it's accessible for these birds. The birds are all accustomed to long distance flights, but what happens with non-migratory seabirds is that gulls and other birds, they face direct mortality from the extreme wind and they have their habitats destroyed with the storm surge and coastal flooding. And then in the case of land birds, what ends up happening is you have flying debris that kills them, hypothermia that kills them because they basically get drenched. And then depending on where they're living, they can get displaced further inland or carried out to sea where they drown ultimately. And it also affects their habitat directly due to both habitat loss and food chain destruction. So you lose your nest and your root sites and you lose food, so certain reptiles and things can be washed away or killed. And then other plants like hummingbirds, so they're called nectarivores, they might lose their flowers that they need for nectar so all of a sudden they don't have a food source.