2019年12月31日 · Every summer, as tourists turn up in their hundreds to see the penguins and to send a postcard, the birds rush to find a partner and raise their young. This extraordinary four-month drama starts...

2013年1月16日 · Watching this skua in Antarctica and was attacking penguins and eventually knocked a nesting penguin off mound and took chicks and swallowed them whole...more.

2018年1月8日 · This Adelie Penguin egg was cracked and eaten by a South Polar Skua at Cape Crozier, Antarctica. At Cape Crozier, a South Polar Skua cruises over the penguin nests in its territory. Skuas are deft fliers that can swoop in on an uncovered egg and snatch it away in a …

2020年4月16日 · In Antarctica, it can all be over in a split-second.Filmed and Produced by Richard Sideyhttp://www.richardsidey.comFollow me:Facebook | http://www.facebook.c...

2016年3月6日 · This was the shocking moment that a baby penguin was plucked from the flock by a crafty predator. The tiny Gentoo chick was surrounded by adults at Volunteer Lagoon, in the Falklands , when a...

2009年5月13日 · The adult penguin kidnapped a skua chick on Marion Island, in the sub-Antarctic, then attempted to raise it. During the incident, reported in Polar Biology, the penguin vigorously defended the...

The skua is a large seagull-like bird that preys on penguin chicks. But the tables are turned when the babies are nearly full-grown and sporting feather mohawks.

2022年7月11日 · The South Polar Skua is famous for only two things: stealing penguin eggs and eating penguin chicks.

What kind of bird eats baby penguins? In the southern oceans and Antarctica region, some skua species (especially the south polar skua) will readily scavenge carcasses at breeding colonies of both penguins and pinnipeds. Skuas will also kill live penguin chicks.

Photographer: Kim Westerskov | Date Taken: 1982-1983 Season | Read the full record details for Photo: Skua Eating Penguin Chick