Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

Most of the world's albatrosses, and their close relatives, petrels, breed on islands in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica. Now new research led by Durham University, UK, and the ...

Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana has announced the Petrel Base will be reopened following repairs as he oversaw the commencement of this season's Summer Antarctic Campaign. During a ...

Maritime Surveillance Aeronaval Squadron flew from the Río Grande Naval Air Base to the Petrel Joint Antarctic B ...

The three services of the Argentine Armed Forces, together with private sector companies have finished upgrading landing facilities at the Antarctic base of Petrel in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have used DNA technology to help identify threatened albatross, petrel and shearwater ...

Wilsons Storm Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, During a storm with high winds we encountered this rare ... [+] petrels on the open sea. They were constantly on the move and not easy to photograph.

Several seabird species are having to fly further to find food because of sea ice melting in Antarctica, a study has claimed. Albatrosses and petrels which breed on islands near the continent ...

Discover the secrets of successful polar seabird photography while navigating pristine Arctic and Antarctic waters during ...

Researchers developed a DNA-based method to identify seabird bycatch in longline fisheries, achieving 98% accuracy compared ...