The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is heading north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the ...
An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its ... His efforts were rewarded when he found a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) like ...
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 ...
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 ...
The iceberg cometh. The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a British island off Antarctica, potentially jeopardizing both marine life and ships in the area.
King penguins are home bodies, and the species does not migrate. But why the colony on Ile aux Cochon has been so decimated remains a mystery. “It is completely unexpected and significant since ...