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Australia Was The Last Continent Without This Bird Flu. A Dead Skua Just Ended That Original

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By John Drake
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Sub Antarctic skua, Stercorarius lonnbergi, roosting. Macquarie Island, Sub Antarctic, administered by Tasmania, Australia. (Photo by: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images A brown skua, found dying on a remote stretch of the Western Australian coast, has done what years of surveillance had braced for.
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Australia Was The Last Continent Without This Bird Flu. A Dead Skua Just Ended That

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By John Drake
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3 hours ago Bird flu kills 13,000 seal pups on Australian island YouTube • 3h A pathogenic H5 bird flu strain killed over 13,000 elephant seal pups in a sub-Antarctic breeding colony, Australian scientists reported. Researchers discovered the carcasses on the remote Heard and McDonald Islands. Genetic testing confirmed the virus also affected penguins and birds, marking its first detection in an Australian external territory.
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Summer Brings People And Bears Together. A Warming Climate Is Reshaping The Calendar Original

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By John Drake
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BROOKS FALLS, ALASKA - AUGUST 12: A brown bear prepares to eat a sockeye salmon while fishing on August 12, 2023 at Brooks Falls, Alaska. The bears feast at the falls in large numbers between July and September, as millions of sockeye salmon swim upstream to spawn within the vast Katmai National Park and Preserve. Many of the same bears return to the falls annually, gorging on salmon to fatten up before hibernating for winter.
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