But several of the Seychelles islands are also renowned for their birdlife - Aride is home to the raptor-like 1 metre long greater frigate birds and in complete contrast, the tiny delicate fairy ...

Scientists captured the moment on video when a Seychelles giant tortoise, thought to be vegetarian, attacked and ate a tern chick.

How a new generation is transforming adventure travel in the Seychelles Dig a little deeper and you’ll find the Indian Ocean’s pin-up paradise archipelago is far more than lazy, diamond-dust ...

Bird experts have raised concerns the redevelopment of Bunbury's waterfront could put vulnerable fairy terns at risk, after a study revealed 50 per cent of their nests in Western Australia fail.

A seasonal delicacy in Seychelles -- bird eggs -- are in short supply and high in price this year. Sooty tern eggs, available from June until August are being collected only on Bird Island - the ...

Juvenile sooty terns have been recorded flying from the eastern coast of Africa to off the coasts of Myanmar and Thailand in the search for food, data collected from an ongoing study shows.

The Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, is a threatened coastal seabird that breeds in colonies on wide-open beaches.

"Seychelles giant tortoises are much more sociable and complex than most people think," he said. He said even if it had escaped the tortoise, the noddy tern chick would never have survived outside ...

A video captured on Fregate Island in the Seychelles shows a female giant tortoise pursuing a baby tern chick stuck on a log. The tortoise manages to get its mouth around the bird’s head and ...

Researchers filmed a giant tortoise stalking and killing a baby tern on an island in the Seychelles. The video is the first direct evidence of tortoises hunting. See more stories on Insider's ...