The agency said the fall in Arctic skua numbers was likely due to a shortage of their food source, sandeels, as well as increased predation from great skuas. Meanwhile, breeding success in 2023 was ...

With fewer great skua and gannet deaths reported, experts hope that some of the birds are building immunity to the deadly Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus. The avian flu outbreak in ...

Numbers of iconic seabird colonies breeding around our coasts have fallen by 48 per cent between 1986 and 2023.

The agency said the fall in Arctic skua numbers was likely due to a shortage of their food source, sandeels, as well as increased predation from great skuas. Meanwhile, breeding success in 2023 ...