More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the ...

Skuas are large sea birds that have a talent for poaching eggs. Go along for the ride as a skua grabs what it thinks is a penguin egg, but is really a hidden ‘spy camera’. (skuas squawking) - ...

The bird came out of the sun like a second world war bomber, lumbering towards me before swerving off at the very last moment, leaving me breathless and shaken. That’ll teach me for getting too near ...

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 28 July 1916 The ragwort is out on the sandhills, masses of handsome flowers above dense, dark green leaves, except where a colony of black and ...

Avian flu affecting the remote St Kilda archipelago threatens to push a wild bird species to the brink of extinction, warn conservationists. Great skua - also known as bonxie - are described as ...

Aggressive and with a tendency to launch savage attacks on its feathered friends, stealing their food and sometimes eating them, has earned the great skua has earned the nickname Pirate of the Seas.

The number of Falkland Islands skua has declined by almost half in just five years, a survey of the bird's largest breeding ground reveals. It is unclear why the population has crashed on New Island, ...

I've never been to Antarctica, and it's not high on my list of "must see" destinations. Ocean voyages and extreme cold are simply not my cup of tea. So, when Joshua Spence reported in early June that ...