Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

The scavenger brown skuas populations on Bird Island, South Georgia Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in brown skua populations on Bird Island, South Georgia. In response ...

South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized ... All are located in field camps or at Bird Island, to the extreme north. Today, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is responsible for nearly ...

BAS operates two research stations on South Georgia, including one at Bird Island where the confirmed cases were identified. As result of the confirmed cases of HPAI, the majority of field work ...

The breeding season is closing on the sub-Antarctic island so the immediate ... But this situation is on the turn. Bird flu was first identified on South Georgia in October 2023, in the large ...

Picture this: You’re a photographer disembarking onto the rocky shores of Saint Andrews Bay on the windswept island of South ...

I worked on Bird Island research station, just off mainland South Georgia, for two and a half years as a zoologist, studying the albatross populations there. It was a real privilege to get to work ...

Each table will represent a species of whale that was hunted and processed on South Georgia," said the artist. As well as killing thousands of whales, the industry devastated the island's bird ...

Discover untamed wildlife and epic landscapes on a South Georgia Island cruise, where penguins rule and history runs deep.

So far avian influenza has been detected in several seabird species on South Georgia Island and the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands. These birds are known to travel to Antarctica. Researchers also ...