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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 ...
Snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus), the only land bird native to the Antarctic continent, on Barrientos Island on March 3, 2019. Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D750: Author: Gordon Leggett: Exposure time: 1/250 sec (0.004) F-number: f/5.6: ISO speed rating: 800: Date and time of data generation: 17:17, 3 March 2019 ...
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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. The location is Barrientos Island in the Shetland Islands of Antarctica, Taken on March 3, 2019. Camera manufacturer
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The snowy sheathbill (Chionis alba) and kelp gull (Larus dominicanus) scavenge for dead chicks and unattended eggs. [34] The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) takes adult birds and fledglings at sea. [35] Orcas also hunt king penguins. [36]