Fairy Tern One of Stuart's favourite past-times during his stay on Aride was strolling along the beach at sunset - he's joined by row upon row of hermit crabs as they line up with him to watch the ...

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 ...

How a new generation is transforming adventure travel in the Seychelles. ... A fairy tern in flight on Aride, where birds outnumber people by 1.25 million to 10. Photograph by Sarah Marshall.

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

It is Frégate in the Seychelles. Long, long ago, in the mid-Jurassic period about 167m years ago, ... If I want to witness a fairy tern egg being laid, I will just have to return to Frégate.

Seychelles News Agency (Victoria) In September last year, 14 fledgeling sooty terns from the Bird Island colony were tagged with satellite tracking tags and monitored to better understand the species.

A giant tortoise bites the head of a tern chick on Frégate Island in the Seychelles, off the eastern coast of Africa. Anna Zora 2021-08-23T15:52:27Z ...

"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 ...

The Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, is a threatened coastal seabird that breeds in colonies on wide-open beaches.Their nests are simple, consisting of a scrape in the sand where ...

Experts said that the new hunting behavior was caused by the “unusual” combination of a tree-nesting tern colony and a resident giant tortoise population on the Seychelles’ Frégate island ...

Scientists captured the moment on video when a Seychelles giant tortoise, thought to be vegetarian, attacked and ate a tern chick By Amy Woodyatt, CNN , CNNWire Tuesday, August 24, 2021 ...