Tristan Albatross killed by mice | Gough Island

Media release Will threatened albatross chick survive after invasive mice killed its mother? • An adult Tristan albatross has been eaten alive by invasive mice, leaving her chick at risk from the mice and starvation. This is the first conclusive evidence that mice kill adults of the species. • Tristan albatrosses are on the brink of extinction due in large part to invasive mice on their breeding ground, Gough Island. • The RSPB will begin a mouse eradication project to save the Tristan albatross and other endangered and threatened birds next month. For the first time on record a Critically Endangered Tristan albatross adult has been eaten alive by invasive non-native house mice. About a third of Tristan albatross chicks are eaten by the introduced mice each year on Gough Island, a UK Overseas Territory island and World Heritage Site in the South Atlantic 2,600km away from the nearest land mass of South Africa. Only two to three pairs of Tristan albatross breed anywhere else on Earth.