Besides having adorable penguins down in Antarctica you also have lots of birds that can actually fly. The Skua is one of those birds, which typically always seems to get vilified because one of its main sources of food during the summer season is penguin eggs and chicks. Hence, a lot of people do not like this particular bird due to their summer diet but they themselves have chicks they must feed and those chicks are really adorable too.
This day we were cruising around the ice in a protected harbour when we found a lone Skua snacking on something and as we got closer we realized that it was eating a juvenile of another flying bird species, a Kelp Gull. Apparently, a flock of Skuas actually attacked and killed the Kelp Gull shortly before I arrived on scene with my zodiac. As you can see there is basically no breast meat left on the bird and this last Skua is getting what they can/what is left on the deceased young Kelp Gull. It is truly a brutal and harsh world down here for all the species that all this place home.
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