Bird flu threatens home of wandering albatrosses

Bird flu threatens home of wandering albatrosses
The wandering albatross – which is also found in New Zealand – has the largest wing-span of any bird. (Image: J.J. Harrison / Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
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By Antony Sguazzin,with assistance from Agnieszka de SousaAn island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat from a fast-spreading strain of bird flu.High pathogenicity avian influenza, or HPAI, is suspected to have reached Marion Island, one of two sub-Antarctic Islands, controlled by South Africa, the country’s environment department said. It’s possibly causing the death of birds from at least three species on the island – brown skuas, wand...

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