Sheathbill
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The sheathbills is a genus of birds in the monotypic family Chionidae of the wader order Charadriiformes; the family consists of one genus with two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the
Snowy Sheathbill
Chionis blanc Pale faced Sheathbill
Chionis minor à Crozet
Rostratula Capensis Davies
Elephant seal
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Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing true seals in the genus Mirounga. Both species, the northern elephant seal and the southern elephant seal, were hunted to the brink of extinc
Sheathbill
…the tidelines. They also take chicks and eggs from penguins and cormorants. The bird has also been observed to directly pilfer milk from the teats of elephant seals. During the penguin breeding season, which is also the sheathbill breeding season, pairs of sheathbills in penguin colonies maintain territories covering…
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Skull of a northern elephant seal
Northern elephant seal rookery at San Simeon, California