Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...
They found that the birds fly huge distances to parts of the ... These species were the northern giant petrel, southern giant petrel, white-chinned petrel, light-mantled albatross, black-browed ...
A northern giant petrel sits on its nest at the edge of a rātā tree forest on Enderby Island ... Samuel took this image from a distance and left quickly to avoid disturbing the bird.
This mysterious, rarely seen petrel is among the ocean's most wide-ranging marine species. Locally known as ‘ua‘u for its haunting, nocturnal call, the bird is an attractive, large, dark gray-brown ...
involving three wandering albatross chicks and two southern giant petrel adults,” the department notes. “The virus can be ...
The Chatham petrel is an endangered seabird native to New Zealand's Chatham Islands. This attractive, gray-and-white bird is easily distinguished by the black mark behind its eye, its wings' uniquely ...
Professor Richard Phillips Birds such as the white-chinned petrel are thought to feed in the nutrient-rich waters left behind by melted sea ice The report said Antarctic sea ice was relatively ...
Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) is monitored at one site (two colonies), Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps) at three sites (four colonies) and Brown Skua (Catharacta antarctica ...
involving three Wandering Albatross chicks and two Southern Giant Petrel adults. The virus can be transported long distances by migrating birds, and this is likely how the virus arrived on Marion ...