Tag: seabirds
Mice that have taken over a remote island are eating seabirds alive in South Africa | News in brief
An environmental organization has an ambitious plan to get rid of mice by “bombarding” the island with pellets coated with rat poison. In South Africa, conservationists plan to “bomb” remote…
Oil kills seabirds in northern Norway – the origin of the emission is still unknown | Foreign countries
Heavy fuel oil has stained hundreds of puffins and terns on the famous bird island of Hornøya in Finnmark. The cause of the oil spill is not yet known. Since…
Microplastics are messing up the digestive system of seabirds
News Published on 04/01/2023 at 2:53 p.m. Updated 04/01/2023 at 2:53 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Scientists have long known that seabirds ingest microplastics by mistaking them for food. And according…
Seabirds threatened by heat waves
Published: Just now fullscreen The herring grizzly colony on Stora Karlsö is the largest in the Baltic Sea. Archive image. Photo: Roland Johansson/TT Herring porpoises and other seabirds risk losing…
Bird flu threatens seabirds in northern Norway – the world’s northernmost infection was found in Svalbard during Midsummer week
Above the island of Hornøya in northern Norway, which is popular with Finnish birders, there is a risk of bird death. Norwegian scientists fear avian flu is spreading to the…