Monster Mice Eating A Million Baby Birds A Year

Baby seabirds are being eaten alive on a remote island by Monster Mice three times their usual size. The rampaging rodents scoff more than a million petrel, shearwater and albatross a year. And the chicks are so immobile they can’t fight back — even though baby albatross are 3ft tall and 250 times the weight of their attackers. Expert Ross Wanless discovered the horror on uninhabited Gough Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic and site of a giant seabird colony. He said: “Gough is the only place we know where this happens. The mice gnaw into the bird’s body and it dies over several days.” Gough Island"Supersize" mice on a British Island are eating seabird chicks alive. The house mice, three times the size of those in the UK, attack at night and are devouring more than one million petrel, shearwater and albatross chicks on Gough Island every year.