The Great Skua is considered to be a kleptoparasite. That is, a species that "hunt" by stealing from others. When I was at Runde last year I was amazed by the skuas' flying techniques when harassing gannets, which themselves are bold birds that can be quite aggressive. So one of my goals this year was to capture a skua in the act. I captured one encounter: http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/2009/06/tailnapper.html
About 2/3 of the area is cropped off so it's a bit soft on the details, but I think it documents the behaviour quite nicely anyway. Image is clickable for slighly larger version. Best, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
