A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a ...

The virus has claimed 150 wandering albatross chicks, but adults in other species are a bigger concern, says the Department ...

Of the 1,900 wandering albatross chicks born on the island in 2024, some 150 have died and adult brown skuas, king penguins, giant petrels and sooty albatrosses have also been affected ...

The deaths of adult seabirds are of great concern as most species only start to breed at 3 to 10 years of age, and most ...

A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a remote island group halfway between South Africa and Antarctica. High ...

Kath Walker and Graeme Elliott, pictured on Antipodes Island with a male wandering albatross, have spent 32 summers and counting charting the populations of birds on subantarctic islands.