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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Black-Footed Albatrosses Perform Courtship Dance In Mesmerizing Footage
Black-footed albatrosses are huge birds. They have […] The post Black-Footed Albatrosses Perform Courtship Dance In ...
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Top 10 Amazing Facts About Albatrosses: Hawaii’s Famous ‘Lesbian’ Bird
Hawaii is home to Laysan albatrosses, with many same-sex pairs observed among them. Albatrosses feed on squid, fish, and krill. They use their sharp beaks to snatch prey from the ocean surface ...
Avian influenza identified in six bird species on Marion Island
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 ...
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By-catch scientific research identifies danger areas for wandering albatrosses
Adult albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) courting at Bird Island, South Georgia. Over half of wandering albatrosses breeding on Bird Island, South Georgia, in the sub-Antarctic, encounter fishing ...
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Fishermen cut beaks off albatrosses in south-west Atlantic fisheries
Albatrosses demonstrating a mutilated bill ... a blade and cutting the bill off to more expeditiously unhook the bird, and then tossing the bird overboard.” Longline fishing can be a significant ...