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The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.Classified in the wader order Charadriiformes, the family consists of one genus, Chionis with two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the snowy sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and coastal southern South America in the southern winter; they are the only bird family endemic as breeders to the ...
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Family Chionididae (sheathbills) Family Pluvianellidae (Magellanic plover) Suborder Lari (gulls and allies) Family Alcidae (puffins, guillemots, murres, and allies) Family Dromadidae (crab plover) Family Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Family Laridae (gulls, terns, and skimmers) Family Pluvianidae (Egyptian plover) Family Stercorariidae ...
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Oilbird videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection; The oilbird's visual acuity; Caripe.net – La Puerta de Entrada (in Spanish) Oilbird Caves of Trinidad Accessed 30 March 2011 "Finding the cave-dwelling Oilbird!". YouTube. Toledo Zoo. August 7, 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. "Oilbird". YouTube. American Bird ...
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This 16–18 cm-long (6.3–7.1 in) migratory bird eats large insects, small birds, frogs, rodents and lizards.Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder."
It is made by stuffing a seal skin with 300 to 500 little auks. Once full and airtight, the skin is sealed with seal fat and the little auks are left to ferment for 3 to 18 months under a pile of rocks. Caught in spring, little auks are a human food resource in winter. [26] However, Knud Rasmussen's death is attributed to food poisoning by kiviaq.