The arrival of the new year is a prime time for Antarctic birds like the south polar skua, Antarctic petrel, and snow petrel to build nests and lay their eggs. However, from December 2021 to January ...

Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea), Larsen B Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Photo: Sergio Pitamitz / VWPics (AP) December and January represent breeding season for seabirds in Antarctica, a time when ...

Anyone who has seen the documentary "March of the Penguins" (also known as the best movie ever) knows how rough polar life can be. Polar seabirds are adapted to withstand the Antarctic's uniquely ...

Snow petrels were among the seabird species that did not reproduce in Antarctica's Dronning Maud Land region in 2021-22. Natalie Tapson via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Every November and December, ...

Scientists have set sail for Antarctica to study snow petrels and their link with climate change. AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE HEADED off for a summer in Antarctica, where they plan to uncover secrets ...

Extreme storms in Antarctica prevented tens of thousands of seabirds reproducing last year, and if climate change causes similar events in the future, it could accelerate a decline in numbers.

Ellie Honan is current co-president of the UK Polar Network. Ellie is a marine ornithologist working on her PhD on the movement and diet of snow petrels, enigmatic Antarctic seabirds. She has a BSc in ...

Angelier, Frédéric, Moe, Borge, Blanc, Samuel, and Chastel, Olivier. 2009. "What Factors Drive Prolactin and Corticosterone Responses to Stress in a Long-Lived Bird Species (Snow Petrel Pagodroma ...