This is pretty sad for the birds.  I find the amount of plastic in the ocean in general to be alarming, and it's always terrible to see it affecting wildlife.  It is vvery unfair to them really.  It would be like someone coming in and just polluting your house with their trash and there was nothing you could do about it and it started making you sickk.  I think we need to do something about the plastic issue, maybe starting by cutting down on all the plastic we use.