CAPE TOWN Seabird ranger Eduard Drost was busy with a routine inspection in an African penguin colony off the South African coast in 2021 when he noticed a troubling number of sickly birds. “Some were emaciated, especially the chicks,” he recalls. “Their chest and hip bones were sticking out. Their bellies were flat, not […]
The avian flu outbreak that killed thousands of cormorants on the Cape West Coast and hit chicken farms has spread to the penguin colony in Simon’s Town.