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Friday 29th July 2011, 12:06
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Black Skimmers attacking and killing Laughing Gulls
Black Skimmer deadly attacks make Hitchcock's Birds look like angels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9IUNxtqrCo Best, Mark |
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Friday 29th July 2011, 12:20
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Fascinating footage. Quite brutal!
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Friday 29th July 2011, 16:23
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Crikey. And I thought skuas were bad.
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Friday 29th July 2011, 23:09
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What is the relationship between the 2 species?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXW3SLSubY&NR=1 The first link makes Skimmers look very brutal but this link makes them look victims. |
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Wednesday 3rd August 2011, 02:49
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Nah. Skimmers are pretty harmless with their skimming. But then I saw this.
It seems to all be juvenile/immature (1cy-2cy?) birds that are the frequent victims. Is this a pattern or a coincidence? (I notice later on their are some adults though) Don't Laughing Gulls also rob Black Skimmers? Maybe they are getting their own back. EDIT: The above sentence is what is shown in the previous post on the egg-raid video.
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Thursday 11th August 2011, 09:53
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Amazing! I have seen so many Skimmer even with other Terns and Gulls, but never an agressiv action like this. Excellent but hard video.
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