Falklands Wildlife 3 Big Birds & those that attack

There are a lot of birds which attack -  gulls and striated caracaras because you are near their chicks, terns because you are there, skuas because they are skuas….

Brown-hooded gulls & terns

& a sneak preview of King Ps

Terns

Striated caracara:

These can kill Upland geese

Caracara & Elephant seals

and then the much less common and not easy to get close to, the Southern Caracara, only seen on Pebble & Sea Lion Islands

3 at the top of the tree

- the same 3 later

but I got too close

 

The Turkey Vulture doesn’t attack

Vultures & Rockhoppers

 

Kelp gulls

  - why I was being mobbed

 

Dolphin gull

Skua with chick

 

  A challenge

Waiting for easy pickings

a Skua chick looks weedy and pathetic – how does it grow into this -

I wouldn’t be so close if I hadn’t been in a car