African Penguins crossing a weighbridge on Bird Island in Algoa Bay. The weighbridge records the weight and direction of the birds and forms part of a larger Automated Penguin Monitoring System at breeding colonies to track this critically endangered species. Photo: Eleanor Weideman
Conservationists are concerned that a mass sardine die-off, possibly from the pilchard herpesvirus pathogen, could reduce food stocks for the already critically endangered African Penguins.
Weight loss has already been recorded in some birds at three local penguin breeding colonies.
Similar sardine die-offs in Australia led to starvation and reduced breeding success for several years for the Little Penguin.
Seabird researchers and marine scientists are watching anxiously to see whether the mass death of sardines along the…
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