wash up

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Researchers amassed citizen science surveys of bird carcasses that washed up on beaches from central California to Alaska over the past roughly three decades.

From Seattle Times

“If an elk’s floating around and washes up, we usually get a report,” he says.

From Seattle Times

In past months hundreds of Africans have been lost and died in boat sinkings off the Sfax coast, while bodies of migrants have piled up in hospital mortuaries after washing up on beaches.

From Reuters

The tide lapped against kelp bulbs that had washed up along the shore.

From Seattle Times

But at least 71 bodies of suspected death flight victims washed up along the coast — 44 in Argentina and 27 in neighboring Uruguay, according to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, a non-governmental group.

From Seattle Times