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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    wow nice pic
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    Did you not read what i said? Re read what you just posted to me, I was showing that caracaras are capable predators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6LSuM3BhI Like a brown skua is going to come down and take away this birds meal chris lol
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

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    great skua killed an adult ganet

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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    Who called the goose a duck? I was comparing a cormorant to a duck saying they are harder birds to kill.
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    I was not the one who started with all the childish behaviour and talking down. I was just trying to talk about birds and learn more (from those with real experience). But for who knows what reasons so many got all upset over that. Is this picture better? or would you prefer a video? Since...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    I did not mean "chase" as in mob I meant chase as in chase it away from food. You are telling me you never seen a LBB gull dominate a herring gull over food?
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    okay enlighten me martin if a LBB gull is able to chase off a herring gull why is a herring gull harder to kill? because it is a tiny bit bigger? And if you really had that much experience how can you not know that great skuas kill herring gulls? You would have known they dont pick and...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    Caracaras clearly have stronger feed than their coulsins (falcons) Have you ever held a cormorant? You would know they are much stronger than a duck. This one has no trouble killing one with no stoop. There are plenty of displays with caracaras for shows. Anyone who has worked with one will...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    How long does it need? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrRRJgtJ6E
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    53 years and you still have not learned much. I imagine most of these are in their 60s. Which is why they are acting this way. All vile and offended. Most people know how to debate without busting their blood vessel. Anyone with the amount of experience you claim would never say "johnny rook...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    Martin making up things that never happened wont give you any credibility either. Changing the temperaments of certain birds and pretending they are something they aren't? wont give you any credibility either. Not admitting you are wrong wont give you any credibility either sorry.
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IggkB5NMbHM The only gull that can get away from a great skua is a GBB gull but even they dont always. The osprey never surfaced it was a clear made up lie from members of the forum for who knows what reasons. There has not been one single thing you have been...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    I am shocked at the lack of experience here and the inability of people to do there own research wow I found the original pictures http://photography-on-the.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-78007.html Clearly the gull took down the osprey Johnny rooks not aggressive huh? YOu clearly never...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    OH BTW herring guls are a prey species of skua. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7obuTJDVZP8 This is a LBB gull but close enough THe subantartic skua is the largest skua with the largest bill then the tristan skua last the falklands skua which is just like the great skua then the chilean...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    I agree chris there iwas NO predation the osprey was going to kiill it or the heron was going to die but it was saved. There is no "argument" if you pay attention I am just trying to debate share knowledge about what i have read with others on the capability of birds. Stop trying to make this...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    Wow you doubted me on every single thing didn't you? calling me a liar? Here you go http://earthsalmanac.blogspot.ca/2013/08/osprey-attacks-great-blue-heron-get-off.html On August lst a great blue heron at Kensington Metropark made a near fatal mistake and landed on the osprey nesting platform...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    if you are unable to figure it out this is the first attack then the second attack is posted You can see the gull did this, not some work of magic
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    chris the skuas of new zealand are beasts they are decent sized larger than the great skua, The great skua is same size as the falklands skua but just more aggressive All this information is in the book skuas and jaguars of the world the only known book on them that I am aware of. The...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    the gbb gull put the osprey in the water, the osprey was flying
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    Enemies: Manniche (1910) relates the following two incidents in which the gyrfalcons were attacked by other birds: A falcon was in the most violent manner attacked by two Ravens. The quarreling birds flew for a while around high up in the air uttering angry cries, after which the Ravens...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    check this picture out a gbb gulls caught and took down an osprey it was probably just trying to take its catch, I dont know if it drowned it or not. Just shows you the raptors easily get victimized. The last one it caught a female p falcon Last pictures show you the power of the osprey it...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    I thought they did too till i saw one up close they have webbed feet but unlike gulls they have super long talons attached to it. Its wierd. Also they have a very solid build. LIke much much more solid build than any bird I have ever seen at that size. I never thought they were that capable...
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    gull species?

    thanks is this a young herring and a adult kelp gull? http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5204/5324477762_dd253fb38a_z.jpg
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    gull species?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKI9NqRJkb4 is this a western gull?
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