It was the first time a house mouse had ever been observed attacking a live adult, nesting albatross. Mōlī, like many ...
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 ...
The normal wandering albatross leaves it’s nest to feed and gather food for its chick for more than 15 days, flying 8,000 to 15,000 kilometers, Harrison said. “That really is the most itinerant life ...
To make this image, Wilkes and an assistant lugged his gear 122 steps uphill and set up near the ruins of a church about six feet from the nesting birds. Standing on the rocky ground for 28 ...
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 ...