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Stepping onto a Brown Skua territory, the loud calls of the pair tell me that their eggs have hatched and somewhere among the yellow bulbinella flowers there are two downy grey chicks.  In a world without mammalian predators skuas have little to fear as they prowl the penguin and albatross colonies.

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 4 July 2013 | Views [239] | View Smaller Image

Stepping onto a Brown Skua territory, the loud calls of the pair tell me that their eggs have hatched and somewhere among the yellow bulbinella flowers there are two downy grey chicks. In a world without mammalian predators skuas have little to fear as they prowl the penguin and albatross colonies.

 

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