The remote island of South Georgia, 800 miles southeast of the ... For many years the number of newly born KING penguin chicks hovered around 190-200 and never appeared to increase.

including a colony of Gentoo and a colony of King penguins. It must be recalled that HPAI was first detected in the brown skua population on Bird Island, South Georgia in October 2023. Since then ...

And as the climate warms further, food will simply become too distant for many birds to fetch for their chicks. "Our work shows that almost 70% of king ... Heard and South Georgia islands, which ...

The breeding season is closing on the sub-Antarctic island ... South Georgia," said Dr Ratcliffe. "Skuas are constantly in amongst the penguin colonies scavenging and preying on eggs and chicks.

It has been drifting north ever since, and now it's dangerously close to South Georgia Island. The area is ... some hope for these seal pups and penguin chicks. At the last minute, a powerful ...

The first chick registered at 182 grams at the Christmas Eve weigh-in as biologists track its daily progress and report the tiny new addition to the South ... as additional King penguin eggs ...