Gentoo penguins are the second largest penguins in the Falkland Islands after the king penguins. Avian pox outbreaks occur every few years in the various colonies. Photo: Julia Hager Wildlife diseases do not stop at remote islands. This is especially true for diseases...
Since last spring, the HPAI H5N1 virus, which is highly contagious to birds, may have ravaged Greenland’s bird colonies, at least on the west coast. But many colonies are so remote that it is not clear how large the number of dead birds might actually be. Image:...
One of the bird species that could bring the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza virus from the north is the Arctic tern, which migrates toward Antarctica every northern autumn, making one of the longest documented animal migrations. Image: Dr Michael Wenger In...
Many of the Antarctic fish the team caught west of the Antarctic Peninsula had skin tumors. A – The fish were caught in Dallmann Bay and Andvord Bay. B – In the species Trematomus scotti, caught in Andvord Bay, the tumors formed all over the body. In...
