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\"Skua<\/a>
Skua flying over the colony looking for opportunities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My previous post covered our landing at Danco Island<\/a> and the large Gentoo Penguin colony there. As with all active colonies\u00a0there were the attendant Brown Skuas which prey on the Penguins, stealing eggs and predating young chicks. We saw a pair of Skua steal an egg then fly off to crack and devour it. It was a perfect example of Skua teamwork, with one distracting the penguin while the second darted in to steal the egg before they flew off together to share the spoils. Lone Skuas have little success but when working as a team achieve significantly more.<\/p>\n

\"Brown<\/a>
Brown Skua flying off with an egg stolen from a Gentoo Penguin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pair<\/a>
Pair of Skua sharing the stolen egg after cracking open the shell which took some time and effort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to egg thievery, the Brown Skua also preys directly on penguin chicks, attacking any that wander away from parental protection until they are killed. Outside of the breeding season Skua disperse and feed opportunistically, gathering food from the sea surface and harrying Albatross and Petrels until they disgorge their food, a technique similar to that used by Frigatebirds.
\n\"Remains<\/a><\/p>\n

Remains of a predated Gentoo chick on the climb up to the peak of Danco Island<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/a>
Another predated chick. The upper part of the colony visible at the top of the frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Brown Skua (Catharacta antarctica),\u00a0<\/em>also known as Subantarctic Skua, Southern Skua or Hakoakoa in New Zealand, are large aggressive birds when compared with the other two Skuas we saw, the dumpy and almost cute, Chilean Skua (Catharacta\u00a0chilensis)\u00a0<\/em>and the South Polar Skua (Catharacta maccormicki).\u00a0<\/em>There is still significant debate on Brown Skua taxonomy with disagreement as to whether different populations are separate species or merely races of the same species – some even differentiating Brown and Subantarctic Skua into separate species. See New Zealand Birds Online<\/a> for more details on this species<\/p>\n

As always I was on the lookout for opportunities to add to my Birds on White<\/a> project and Danco Island didn’t disappoint, offering a Brown Skua flying in falling snow.<\/p>\n

\"Brown<\/a>
Brown Skua on white<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My previous post covered our landing at Danco Island and the large Gentoo Penguin colony there. As with all active colonies\u00a0there were the attendant Brown Skuas which prey on the Penguins, stealing eggs and predating young chicks. We saw a pair of Skua steal an egg then fly off to crack and devour it. 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The going was initially easy underfoot with a plush carpet of mosses and bidibid but after a Teal-free Teal Lake we encountered the final trackless, shoulder high, tussock hummocks which, combined\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "New Zealand"","block_context":{"text":"New Zealand","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/new-zealand"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair_D819880-web.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair_D819880-web.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair_D819880-web.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Light-mantledAlbatrossPair_D819880-web.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}