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The snowy sheathbill does not have webbed feet. It finds its food on land. It is an omnivore, a scavenger, and a kleptoparasite and will eat nearly anything. It steals regurgitated krill and fish from penguins when feeding their chicks and will eat their eggs and chicks if given the opportunity.
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 ...
If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file. Image title Snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus), the only land bird native to the Antarctic continent, on Barrientos Island on March 3, 2019.
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English: Chinstrap penguins often attack predator birds like the giant petrel or skua who eat their eggs and chicks. These chinstrap penguins are a little more tolerant of the presence of this smaller snowy sheathbill but still watchful.
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The black-faced sheathbill (Chionis minor), also known as the lesser sheathbill or paddy bird, is one of only two species of sheathbills, aberrant shorebirds which are terrestrial scavengers of subantarctic islands.
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