Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana has announced the Petrel Base will be reopened following repairs as he oversaw the commencement of this season's Summer Antarctic Campaign. During a ceremony ...
The Hawaiian petrel is an endangered seabird that resides in the central subtropical Pacific Ocean and is known to breed only within the major Hawaiian Islands. This mysterious, rarely seen petrel is ...
A Petrel (top) and a Kite: In October 2017, two Slingsby gliders owned by an antique airplane museum soared above Oregon’s Hood River Valley. At the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, Tom ...
The voyages of the R/V Petrel, funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, are the focus of a National Geographic documentary premiering on Monday – and as a prelude to the show, the leader of ...
Lynn Kidd puzzles over the dying bird in front of her. She has never seen anything like it, certainly not around the West Australian seaside town of Esperance, where she has worked as a wildlife carer ...
The R/V Petrel team monitors the USS Strong survey operation on the floor of the Kula Gulf in the Solomon Sea. (Photo courtesy of Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc.) The USS Strong put in less than a year of ...
A rare bird normally found in the central Pacific, which lost its way and ended up on a pub balcony in Sydney, has been released back into its natural habitat. A rarely seen Bulwer's petrel, usually ...
The peninsula northwest of the industrial city of Antofagasta, on Chile’s northern desert coast, is haloed with seabirds in flight. Pelicans lumber past wheeling gulls. Flocks of boobies cut the haze ...