An ultra rare all black penguin has been spotted on a beach on South Georgia Island. Photographer Yves ... to capture images of the melanistic king penguin before it was swamped by the rest ...
A beautiful group of islands are owned by the UK, but are 8,000 miles away in the Atlantic Ocean. The South Sandwich Islands, ...
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 ...
Bird flu has been confirmed in 10 penguins ... islands have escaped the worst due to their remoteness. But this situation is on the turn. Bird flu was first identified on South Georgia in October ...
Likewise, hundreds of thousands of southern elephant seals come to the island each summer to breed and to rear their young. South Georgia's king penguin populations too are soaring. In 1925 only ...
King penguins breed on many of the sub-Antarctic ... and by increasing their numbers on Heard and South Georgia islands, which should benefit from improved foraging conditions as the APF edges ...