It was the first time a house mouse had ever been observed attacking a live adult, nesting albatross. Mōlī, like many seabirds, have evolved without predators on remote islands. As a result ...
One chick in a short-tailed albatross nest was found unharmed about 35m away, after its nest was washed over. Other birds were less lucky - thousands of Bonin petrels were buried alive.
and finally to the moment at which an albatross chick fledges the nest and takes to the skies for the first time to go out to sea, not to return to its natal colony for years to come. Bird Island ...
Here, the incredible Antipodean wandering albatross which have been foraging ... they count the birds to check who’s there, map their nesting sites and don them with numbered bands so they ...
Science tells us Morus bassanus is a cousin of the booby, but the eye sees a seagull crossed with an albatross ... North Atlantic harbor some 400,000 nesting pairs, plus tens of thousands of ...