Mutton bird chicks are only young enough to lunch on for about five weeks each year, after which they become too big to eat – hence, the snakes’ oversized heads.

Eating mutton bird is part of a long culture in the Furneaux Island group. While the rest of Australia is enjoying the short-tailed shearwater with binoculars, island dwellers are getting out ...

On a remote Australian island renowned ... It is home to about 44,000 sable shearwaters — also known as flesh-footed shearwaters or mutton birds — which breed on the island before chicks ...

Mutton birding: a story of cultural obligation, Blak joy and survival The ancient cultural tradition is practised every year on a picturesque island off the coast of lutruwita, but there are ...

They’re particularly plentiful in a 200-metre stretch of scrub known as Snake Alley, where they live in mutton bird burrows and gorge on mutton bird chicks. Mount Chappell Island snakes are ...

It is home to about 44,000 sable shearwaters – also known as flesh-footed shearwaters or mutton birds – which breed on the island before chicks fledge the nest and fly to Japan at about 90 ...