Mice have flourished on Gough Island since they were inadvertently introduced by sailors in the 19th century, and have evolved to become half as large again as average house mice.

The mice are also affecting Gough Island’s other Critically Endangered endemic species, Gough Bunting Rowettia goughensis. A recent survey of the bunting’s population revealed that the ...

“Monster mice” are eating much larger albatross chicks alive, threatening rare bird species on a remote South Atlantic island seen as the world’s most important seabird colony.

Surveys of Gough Bunting in 2007 suggest that the population is 400-500 pairs. The United Kingdom Overseas Territory (UKOT) Conservation Forum research findings indicate that the mice are responsible ...

Gough Island, which is part of ... There are plans to eradicate mice on the islands which are eating seabird chicks, to save the Tristan albatross and Gough bunting from extinction .

Welcome to Gough Island, one of the most remote rocks on the planet. ... They also prey on prions, petrels, shearwaters and other seabirds, as well as the endemic Gough moorhen and bunting.

A giant mouse feeds on a dead seabird chick. Ross Wanless and Andrea Angel. Nestled in a remote corner of the South Atlantic, the nearly uninhabited volcanic Gough Island is a nature geek's dream ...

Emily Beament The curlew and Dartford warbler could be heading towards extinction, the RSPB warned yesterday, following a revision of the global… ...

There are plans to eradicate mice on the islands which are eating seabird chicks, to save the Tristan albatross and Gough bunting from extinction ; Henderson Island in the Pacific, ...