Thirty young seabirds left an island for the first time; researchers discovered they were all heading to the same hidden sea hotspot |
A Sable Shearwater chick leaves Lord Howe Island only once as a fledgling, having never flown further than its burrow entrance, never fed itself, and never seen the open ocean. Researchers at Adrift Lab attached solar-powered GPS tags to thirty of these young birds as they prepared to leave in 2022 and 2024, tracking where…
