Big 'kill mouse & # 39; eats millions of live birds abroad

More than a hundred years ago, sailors had accidentally taken mice to the island, which is part of British overseas territory, St. Helena. Now, rodents pose a threat to birds

Mice have spread all over the island and have evolved to one and a half times the size of a typical domestic mouse. In addition, they learned to eat the eggs and chicks of millions of birds that remain on the island, according to a study by the British RSPB bird protection organization. That would be two million eggs and chicks a year.

It may be hard to believe that a thirty-gram mouse can kill a ten-kilogram chick, but it does happen. On the video images, we can see that the mice eat chickens meat in groups. The pictures show how chicks often suffer for days before injuries lead to their death.

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According to this study, without any action, the threatened tristan albatross will probably disappear. Predatory mice also threaten other albatrosses, buntings and fulmars.

At the same time, the RSPB and the government of Tristan da Cunha, of which Gough is a part, have developed a program to eradicate the mouse in 2020 and a bloodbath among the birds to stop a once and for all.