Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Not the nominate infrataxon :t:Yes, but their versions of English are both subordinate - I won't say inferior - to English (is sensu stricto the phrase I'm looking for?) o
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Scelorchilus
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The jaegers do not hunt? Whaaaat. That is all they do in the Arctic, hunt!
Neomorphus
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No hold on whey.... kleptoparasitism is not hunting, it's when some dude forces you to pay for badly washing your windscreen at the lights when you didn't want it washed in the first place!
Yes they chase, harass, belly pinch, peck, gauge, they can easily cause a lot of damage, although I don't call that hunting. I was talking about jaegers (Long-tailed/ Parasitic ) NOT skuas pecking the shit out of a baby gull or plover. It would be great to see a paper about jaegers "hunting".... please FW. I don't know enough about where Pomarine fits in, but there you go.
I have a European book that describes food during breeding of LT Jaeger as mainly mice and lemmings, adds things like berries, bird nestlings etc, and finishes by saying the species generally does less kleptoparasitism than other similar species. The same book describes Parasitic as mixing fish from kleptoparasitism with small mammals during breeding.
Niels
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l_raty
laurent raty
Perhaps but, on the other hand, they're not called "hunters". In German, "jagen" also means to chase / to pursue.
Peter Kovalik
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DID NOT PASS
Jim LeNomenclatoriste
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Phylogenomics Reveals that Mitochondrial Capture and Nuclear Introgression Characterizes Skua Species Proposed to be of Hybrid Origin
Abstract. The skuas and jaegers (Stercorariidae) are an enigmatic family of seven seabird species that breed at Arctic and Antarctic latitudes. The phylogenetic
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