It happened to me to encounter sheathbills twice. Their most distinctive feature is feeding among penguin colonies. They eat the remains of undigested food, but can also be a threat to newly hatched chicks or not protected penguin eggs. Penguins were watching sheathbills but did not care about them too much and chased them rarely. Snowy sheathbill occurs in Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. Their weight does not exceed 600 grams and a wingspan of 80 centimeters. They were not skittish, but when the distance was less than 8-10 meters they always took flight.

Antarktyda - wykaz j. ANGIELSKI

Antarctica -Gentoo Penguin  - introductory text
List of newly gallery birds:
1.Gentoo Penguin. 2.Chinstrap Penguin. 3. Adelie Penguin. 4. Light-Mantled Albatross. 5. Wandering Albatros. 6. Black-browed albatross. 7. Northern Giant Petrel. 8. White-Chinned Petrel. 9. Slender-billed prion. 10. Wilson’s Storm-Petrel. 11.  Antarctic Prion. 12. Cape Petrel. 13. Southern Fulmar. 14. Snowy Sheathbill. 15. Antarctic Tern. 16. South polar skua. 17. Southern giant petrel. 18. Antarctic Shag . 19. White-bellied Storm-Petrel.
List of mammals newly gallery: 1.Killer whale. 2. Leopard seal.  3. Antarctic fur seal. 4. Weddell seal.
Changes in the galleries: 1.Whales. 2. Black-baked gull.

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