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Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-03-2015

 

Please post there are alot of amazing perdatory birds out there great skua, great black backed gulls ravens, storks

RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-03-2015

Great black backed gull 


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comparison with a lesser black backed gull
 

RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-03-2015

Young Great black backed gull chasing off almost adult female goshawk. I've been lucky enough to witnessing fights between these two spicies myself!


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can take quite a hit and still fight back
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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-03-2015

Great black backed gull chasing off peregrine falcon and stealing it's prey. 


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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-03-2015

Some more pictures of them taking on gishawk's!
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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-03-2015

Gbbg vs osprey. 

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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - sanjay - 02-03-2015

@Pantherinae Very nice.

RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pckts - 02-05-2015

Some good scales of Albatross Size

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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-05-2015

This gull is just an amazing bird here it's trying to take down a large canada goose gosling, incerdible fotage, also notice in The first video how some of the adults are fleeing whle those adults trying to attack not even affects The massive gull. I've seen it take down adult eiders myself before and it's pure power houses. 








RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-05-2015

Great black backed gull feeding chick with a puffin. In The end it chases a raven. 




Second video: ravens are though and this show's what this gull is about when it's defending a sheep carcass against half a dusin





RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-05-2015

Great skua: a big bird 50-58 cm long and has a wingspann of about 145 cm. And weigh's 1-1,8 kg. 
It usually lives on fish, taken from The sea, fishing boat's or from other birds such as gannests, commorants, gulls, puffins and many more. But will also kill smaller birds and even some records of it killing gannets. 
Great skua kills a lesser black backed gull





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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-05-2015

Great skua vs Grate black backed gull: these birds are The two most dominant birds on the open sea, and therfore will have fierce competition between them. 
my own personal experience with these two birds are that The gull is dominat on land and sea, but in flight The skua has The upperhand. The skua is such an amazing bird in flight, and with a bad temper it's no laughing matter, I've heard storries from falconares telling storries about when hunting with both read tail hawks, gyrfalcons and goshawks in arias where the skua was, the skua would catch up with the raptors bring The down and beat them up so badly that The birds refused to hunt in that aria again. 

Some fighting pictures between The two spicies. 

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RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-05-2015

Skua and grate black backed gull 





RE: Other carnivores birds (ravens, skuas, gull etc.) - Pantherinae - 02-05-2015

fulmar is also a tough bird, but this is surprising here one is chasing off two skuas which is said to actually hunt and kill fulmars. 



 

here two fulmar hopes to get some scraps from a great black backed gull