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International rugby player who harmed endangered birds loses appeal

NewstalkZB 14 May 2024
“As it approached the flock the boat made no attempt to slow or deviate its course to avoid striking the birds,” court documents state ... She read from a bird guide noting that fairy prions were often hard to see on the water because of their colouring.
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Bird Flu Hits Antarctic Region For First Time Ever

IFL Science 24 Oct 2023
... of bird species including macaroni and gentoo penguins, albatrosses, and small burrowing birds such as petrels and prions – many of which are listed as endangered, threatened, or near-threatened.
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Pelagic birds live a life on the ocean

Victoria Advocate 13 Oct 2023
Most folks may do so to go deep sea fishing, or they may work on an oilrig we went to bird. There is a group of birds that spends their entire lives living on the ocean’s vast expanses ... Some of these birds, such as albatrosses, even sleep while flying.
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Salmon that eat salmon are more environmentally friendly, researchers say

Phys Dot Org 12 Oct 2023
However, feeding salmon with salmon meal is currently prohibited because of the regulations that are there to prevent prion diseases ... Prions are proteins that can cause disease in mammals, but prion diseases have not been found in fish or birds.
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Employee sought for one of world's remotest places

RNZ 28 Apr 2023
As part of the RSPB International Conservation Science Team, Goodwill and Dorman track the movements of various endangered birds, such as the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, Atlantic petrel and MacGillivray's prion.
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Gough Island: Worker sought for one of world's remotest places

Yahoo Daily News 27 Apr 2023
As part of the RSPB International Conservation Science Team, Lucy and Rebekah track the movements of various endangered birds, such as the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, Atlantic petrel and MacGillivray's prion.
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From 300,000 rabbits to none: a Southern Ocean island is reborn

The Observer 10 Aug 2022
But after the accidental poisoning of native birds, calicivirus (a rabbit haemorrhagic disease) was released in February 2011 to further reduce rabbit numbers ... Gradually, life for the island’s birds is improving.
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