weblog 2025 |
|
[home] [weblog] [science] [people] [station] [ny-ålesund] [sightings] [sitemap] [nederlands] |
|
great skua | 30 July 2025 |
A great skua is an impressive big seabird, which behaves as a bird of prey. While we are studying geese, a skua steals the show. | |
 |
We have placed cameras on Storholmen in the area of goose nests to determine goose grazing pressure.
One camera registered a lot of activity by a pair of great skuas. One of the breeding pair has been marked for the program SEATRACK. It caries a colourring yellow NC and a GPS logger. With this program, we want to follow seabirds to learn about their winter distribution at sea. |
    | |
| The great skua is hunting for other birds. On the island we find several carcasses of both common eider and barnacle geese. I have seen them hunting for moulting barnacle geese. They work as a pair. First in dividing a victim from the flock and than they land on the back of the victim, until they fall off and the partner takes ovcer immedeately. Until the goose has drowned. A gosling is easier prey, but the parents defend succesfully. And suddenly a young of the great skua appears in front of the camera. The young is also ringed with a colourring: yellow JZ. |
 | |
[home] [weblog] [science] [people] [station] [ny-ålesund] [sightings] [sitemap] [nederlands]
|
|||||||
| [previous] | [present] | [next] | [overview] | ||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||
| 20250719, 15:00 | 20250730, 12:00 | 20250806, 12:00 | all items shown with small pics | ||||
| plants roots and permafrost | great skua | barnacle geese in longyearbyen |
This page has been given the following keywords: [skua] You can click on each keyword to get an overview about related pages. |