Amazed Chilean scientists have identified a new bird species, the Sub-Antarctic rayadito in the Diego Ramirez Islands that lie 100 kilometers from southern Chile's Cape Horn. The small brown bird ...
The species breeds the furthest south of any penguin species, forming large colonies on the sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent. 'They may be the only bird never to set foot on land and ...
An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat from a fast-spreading strain of bird flu. High pathogenicity avian ...
Just months after the spread of avian flu was first confirmed in Antarctica's wild birds, the virus has now been detected for the first time in the region's mammals, which include elephant seals and ...