A masked booby seabird and chick nest on Tromelin Island in the French Antarctic. PATRICK HERTZOG / AFP via Getty Images
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Typically, the start of each new year aligns with peak breeding times for Antarctic seabirds, like the south polar skua, Antarctic petrel and snow petrel. Around this time, the birds will select sites and start building their nests and laying eggs. But a new study during the time period from December 2021 through January 2022 found a steep decline in these seabirds’ nests, revealing that entire populations of Antarctic seabirds laid few, if any, eggs.
The researchers noted that there was unusually high snowfall from climate change-induced…
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