A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a ...

I worked on Bird Island research station, just off mainland South Georgia, for two and a half years as a zoologist, studying the albatross populations there. It was a real privilege to get to work ...

The two islands are uninhabited aside from researchers. The wandering albatross has the largest wing-span of any bird and they are famed for following ships. There are thought to about 25,000 of ...