Twenty highlights of Antarctica, the ultimate bucket-list destination
Most Antarctic trips explore the western peninsula departing from South America for about 10 days. This is the most beautiful ...
Bird flu hits world’s biggest wandering albatross colonies
A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a ...
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Jellyfish, major source of food of Falklands' black browed albatrosses, says scientific research
Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies researcher Julie McInnes analyzed scats from 1460 breeding sites of the black browned albatross from far flung places including Falkland Islands ...
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Antarctica: The continent discovered 200 years ago
A group of scientists called the British Antarctica Survey tracked one grey-headed albatross who flew around the world in the Southern Hemisphere in just 46 days. Albatrosses can drink seawater ...
Longline to extinction: The Kiwi scientists raising the red flag for subantarctic albatrosses
Extraordinary NZers Kath Walker and Graeme Elliott and their conservation work.
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Filming albatross chicks eating plastic
as they had to remove packing banding from around Antarctic fur seal’s necks several times per season – a terrible sight. However, I was equally shocked to come across pellets that albatross ...
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Positive avian flu confirmed in wandering albatross in South Georgia
The team at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), at Cambridge ... including long-term monitoring of wandering albatross, black-browed albatross, grey-headed albatross, northern and southern giant ...
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World's largest iceberg runs aground in South Georgia and blocks off key penguin feeding ground
A23a broke off from Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne ice shelf ... As do several species of albatross, elephant seals and fur seals. The ocean around the islands is also increasingly important for ...