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| Gentoo penguin defends its dead chick (right), from the striated caracara (left) that has just killed it. The penguin continued to defend its lifeless chick for hours, in spite of the futulity and inevitabliityof the final result. Striated caracaras eventually took possession of the dead chick and fed upon it. Image ID: 24075 Species: Gentoo penguin, Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Striated caracara feeds upon a gentoo penguin chick it has just killed. Image ID: 24086 Species: Gentoo penguin, Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24125 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24126 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24275 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Striated caracara, aka Johnny Rook, a common raptor in the Falkland Islands. Image ID: 23827 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24206 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Gentoo penguin defends its dead chick (right), from the striated caracara (left) that has just killed it. The penguin continued to defend its lifeless chick for hours, in spite of the futulity and inevitabliityof the final result. Striated caracaras eventually took possession of the dead chick and fed upon it. Image ID: 24207 Species: Gentoo penguin, Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Striated caracara feeds upon a gentoo penguin chick it has just killed. Image ID: 24278 Species: Gentoo penguin, Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Striated caracara feeds upon a gentoo penguin chick it has just killed. Image ID: 24279 Species: Gentoo penguin, Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Striated caracara feeds upon a gentoo penguin chick it has just killed. Image ID: 24280 Species: Gentoo penguin, Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis, Pygoscelis papua Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24083 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24127 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24162 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24273 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24274 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24276 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Straited caracara, a bird of prey found throughout the Falkland Islands. The striated caracara is an opportunistic feeder, often scavenging for carrion but also known to attack weak or injured birds. Image ID: 24277 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Steeple Jason Island, striated caracara in the foreground, southwestern exposure, looking south pass the isthmus toward the southern half of the island. Steeple Jason is one of the remote Jason Group of Islands in the West Falklands. Uninhabited, the island is spectacular both for its rugged scenery and its enormous breeding colony of black-browed albatross. Steeple Jason Island is now owned and administered by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Image ID: 24161 Species: Striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis Location: Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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