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'Super-sized' mice that are 50% bigger than average are eating endangered seabird chicks ALIVE


Super-sized mice that are 50% bigger than average are eating endangered seabird chicks ALIVE on Gough Island - with just one baby bird left, RSPB reveals
The house mice were introduced to Gough Island in the 19th century and have adapted to feast on seabirds 
Since 2014 when monitoring began only 21 MacGillivray s prion chicks have fledged from 370 nest 
In 2020 out of 50 nests being monitored by the RSPB just a single chicks survived, the rest eaten by mice
The RSPB says by 2057 there is a 31% chance the MacGillivray s prion seabird will go extinct on Gough Island unless effort are made to completely eradicate the invasive mice species currently eating the chicks alive ....

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