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An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos unusually broods two downy chicks on Gough Island; photograph by Michelle Risi, 15 December 2015.  Full story here. Southern Africa, generally well covered by books on particular groups of birds, now has a seabird book to fill a notable gap and join existing books on game birds, water birds […]

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The newly painted S.A. Agulhas II has 22 team members of the 74th Marion Overwintering team, a number of takeover scientists, as well as a photographic team from National Geographic on board. For all on-board this is indeed an exciting time ahead as they leave Cape Town today. It will take the ship 3-4 days […]

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Marion Island’s Ship’s Cove: is this where alien House Mice first got ashore in the early 1800s? Michelle Greve (Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria) and colleagues have published a review of the 48 terrestrial alien species currently present on the Prince Edward Islands, including Marion Island’s House Mice Mus musculus in the […]

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