Vanstreels painted a morbid picture of a "crisis in animal suffering" with the virus causing birds to fall out of the air, swim, and walk aimlessly as the virus attacks their brains. H5N1 was first ...

For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic ...

More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, ...

A recent study reveals that over 50 skuas died due to avian flu, making them the first wildlife victims of the infection in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two brown skua birds, brown gull type birds, with sharp beaks and webbed feet, stand on green and brown cliffs on Bird Island, ...

While H5N1 has been circulating in Antarctica since 2023, this is the first confirmation showing that it killed birds on that continent.

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, ...

Scientists are concerned after confirming the first-ever known cases of the bird flu in the Antarctic region, a discovery that illustrates the sweeping impact of the virus that has killed hundreds of ...

Records stretching back 30 years indicate a tricky problem for marine conservation: When fishing vessels discard less fish-waste material, scavenging seabirds called great skuas attack and kill more ...

If you mess with this bird's nest, it won't soon forget your face. A new study from South Korean researchers found that brown skuas in Antarctica can recognize human "nest intruders" after only a few ...