Antarctic petrels follow other congeners and hunt krill (mainly) on the surface, sometimes they can dive up to one meter. Image: Nigel Voaden Never observed before in this region of Antarctica, a massive decline in reproduction strikes birds that gather in colonies of...
The image of the new colony was taken in mid-October 2021 by the Worldview-3 satellite operated by Maxar Technologies, a private satellite operator, as part of the EU’s own Copernicus-2 satellite mission. The evaluation by researchers now came about in the...
The site where the colony was found is situated at Cape Irizar, a rocky area south of the Drygalski Glacier tongue on the Scott Coast in the Ross Sea. Since Robert Falcon Scott had discovered this area, no Adélie penguin colony had been ever recorded here. Photo:...
