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How the snowy Sheathbill hunts and what is eats

The Antarctic Sheath-bill is an omnivore a scavenger and a kleptoparasite. It eats faeces of seals and tapeworms that lives in a chinstrap penguins intestine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It also steals food from other animals, some things it steals are krill, fish, and some penguin eggs. But it never kills other birds. It is also caled the garbage deposer.     

Snowy heath-bill flying

Snowy sheath-bill eating

A snowy sheath-bill eating penguin poo

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