“After an initial suspected case in a brown skua in mid-September 2024, another five suspected cases were found in early November 2024, involving three wandering albatross chicks and two ...

Monitoring the breeding population at Antipodes Island will be ongoing to detect changes in productivity, nest success, recruitment, and adult and chick survival. The influence of the uneven sex ratio ...

Along with the wandering albatross, northern royal albatross are one of the largest seabirds ... Hot conditions during hatching is a major problem as adults will stand up to cool themselves, leaving ...

Wandering albatrosses – which have the ... a zoologist, is seen checking albatross chicks on Bird Island where she was the British Antarctic Survey’s winter manager for more than two years.

Conservationists had photographed one perched on the bloodied head of a wandering albatross chick. Dr Wolfaardt said the birds have not developed a defense mechanisms to protect themselves against ...