Snowy sheathbills in winter on Yorke Bay in the Falkland Islands #birds #nature #winter #wildlife #falklandislands
March 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Snowy sheathbills in winter on Yorke Bay in the Falkland Islands #birds #nature #winter #wildlife #falklandislands
The Snowy Sheathbills (Chionis albus) were very hard to find 😂😂😂 Apparently this is the only landbird native to the Antarctic continent. It looks like a chunky pigeon but it's actually a shorebird. #BirdingAntarctica #sheathbills #seabirds #shorebirds
August 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The Snowy Sheathbills (Chionis albus) were very hard to find 😂😂😂 Apparently this is the only landbird native to the Antarctic continent. It looks like a chunky pigeon but it's actually a shorebird. #BirdingAntarctica #sheathbills #seabirds #shorebirds
Snowy sheathbills on a snow covered Yorke Bay in the Falkland Islands #winter #wildlife #sheathbills #snowysheathbill #birds #scavengers #seabirds #yorkebay #penguins #FalklandIslands #SouthAtlantic
April 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Snowy sheathbills on a snow covered Yorke Bay in the Falkland Islands #winter #wildlife #sheathbills #snowysheathbill #birds #scavengers #seabirds #yorkebay #penguins #FalklandIslands #SouthAtlantic
Snowy sheathbill having a wash on Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #sheathbills #falklandislands #nature #southatlantic #snwoysheathbill #sealionisland #washing #wildlife
May 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Snowy sheathbill having a wash on Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #sheathbills #falklandislands #nature #southatlantic #snwoysheathbill #sealionisland #washing #wildlife
Snowy Sheathbills (Chionis albus) against the sky at Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
#birds #aves #BirdOfTheDay
#birds #aves #BirdOfTheDay
January 5, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Snowy Sheathbills (Chionis albus) against the sky at Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
#birds #aves #BirdOfTheDay
#birds #aves #BirdOfTheDay
February 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White.
2 Snowy sheathbills, Port Lockroy, Antarctica, 2002
(Gntoo penguin left foreground and Adelie penguins blurred at rear. Fuji 400 ASA.
2 Snowy sheathbills, Port Lockroy, Antarctica, 2002
(Gntoo penguin left foreground and Adelie penguins blurred at rear. Fuji 400 ASA.
September 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, birds main colour is White.
2 Snowy sheathbills, Port Lockroy, Antarctica, 2002
(Gntoo penguin left foreground and Adelie penguins blurred at rear. Fuji 400 ASA.
2 Snowy sheathbills, Port Lockroy, Antarctica, 2002
(Gntoo penguin left foreground and Adelie penguins blurred at rear. Fuji 400 ASA.
OMG cats are appropriating Seagull culture!
September 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
OMG cats are appropriating Seagull culture!
There are nematodes and microscopic animals; there are skuas and sheathbills, which depending on who you talk to aren’t expressly marine creatures
November 10, 2024 at 12:43 AM
There are nematodes and microscopic animals; there are skuas and sheathbills, which depending on who you talk to aren’t expressly marine creatures
#birdoftheday is white bird so here is a sheathbill from South Georgia Island. small bird who looks angelic but who eat carrion, faeces and steal eggs and krill from the penguins #photography #birds #bird #birdphotography
September 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#birdoftheday is white bird so here is a sheathbill from South Georgia Island. small bird who looks angelic but who eat carrion, faeces and steal eggs and krill from the penguins #photography #birds #bird #birdphotography
Sheathbills (birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...) endure frigid Antarctic temperature behaviorally and with dense plumage, but they also have a layer of subcutaneous blubber that can be 1 cm thick.
November 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Sheathbills (birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...) endure frigid Antarctic temperature behaviorally and with dense plumage, but they also have a layer of subcutaneous blubber that can be 1 cm thick.
At Bird Island, the team tagged over 400 snowy sheathbills – a species of bird whose population, behaviours and migratory movements are still a mystery to science 🕊️
*cue Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl'*
The tags will help reveal population size and where they go on their travels...
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*cue Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl'*
The tags will help reveal population size and where they go on their travels...
🧵4/9
May 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
At Bird Island, the team tagged over 400 snowy sheathbills – a species of bird whose population, behaviours and migratory movements are still a mystery to science 🕊️
*cue Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl'*
The tags will help reveal population size and where they go on their travels...
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*cue Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl'*
The tags will help reveal population size and where they go on their travels...
🧵4/9
Knowing what I know about the dietary habits of sheathbills, I'm with the people who named it that.
January 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Knowing what I know about the dietary habits of sheathbills, I'm with the people who named it that.
The data gathered will feed into research around the world. Each project adds valuable insight into how Antarctica is changing, and what that means for the global climate system.
Read the full end-of-season story ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/news/from-ts...
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Read the full end-of-season story ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/news/from-ts...
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From tsunamis to sheathbills: British Antarctic Survey celebrates a successful season South - British Antarctic Survey
BAS celebrates another successful Antarctic science season, deepening our knowledge of the polar regions and their wider impact to the planet.
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May 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The data gathered will feed into research around the world. Each project adds valuable insight into how Antarctica is changing, and what that means for the global climate system.
Read the full end-of-season story ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/news/from-ts...
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Read the full end-of-season story ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/news/from-ts...
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The Sheathbills don't have the cards.
April 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The Sheathbills don't have the cards.
On the Western archipelago, the retreating ice will leave behind rocky fjords and crags, with teeming wetlands serving as nurseries for plant diversification. These wetlands are a pressure-zone for coastal fish species to slowly adapt to and then colonize freshwater bodies. #spec-evo #worldbuilding
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
On the Western archipelago, the retreating ice will leave behind rocky fjords and crags, with teeming wetlands serving as nurseries for plant diversification. These wetlands are a pressure-zone for coastal fish species to slowly adapt to and then colonize freshwater bodies. #spec-evo #worldbuilding
With so many empty niches in the Antarctic interior, it's inevitable that Penguins will try to fill them! Their solid bones allow them to outweigh and out-bully the sheathbills, but on land they are slow and clumsy. Freshwater varities abound. #specevo #speculativeevolution #digitalart
July 5, 2026 at 5:19 AM
With so many empty niches in the Antarctic interior, it's inevitable that Penguins will try to fill them! Their solid bones allow them to outweigh and out-bully the sheathbills, but on land they are slow and clumsy. Freshwater varities abound. #specevo #speculativeevolution #digitalart
I can’t believe I only just learned about sheathbills yesterday, I love these things now. awful disgusting freak birds who are known for stealing food from baby penguins but only when they aren’t eating literal garbage
June 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I can’t believe I only just learned about sheathbills yesterday, I love these things now. awful disgusting freak birds who are known for stealing food from baby penguins but only when they aren’t eating literal garbage
The Sheathbill and the Elephant Seal
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Elephant seal breeding season on Sea Lion Island can be violent as beachmasters are challenged. Blubber waves crash down their bodies with each impact. The fights result in bloody wounds attracting snowy sheathbills.
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Elephant seal breeding season on Sea Lion Island can be violent as beachmasters are challenged. Blubber waves crash down their bodies with each impact. The fights result in bloody wounds attracting snowy sheathbills.
The Snowy Sheathbill and the Southern Elephant Seal
Elephant seal breeding and pupping season on the beaches of Sea Lion Island is a mix of tense calm interspersed with exceptional violence as the beachmasters are challenged for their harems by potenti...
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March 29, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The Sheathbill and the Elephant Seal
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Elephant seal breeding season on Sea Lion Island can be violent as beachmasters are challenged. Blubber waves crash down their bodies with each impact. The fights result in bloody wounds attracting snowy sheathbills.
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Elephant seal breeding season on Sea Lion Island can be violent as beachmasters are challenged. Blubber waves crash down their bodies with each impact. The fights result in bloody wounds attracting snowy sheathbills.
It was pretty amazing. The sheathbills were frequently absolutely filthy though.
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It was pretty amazing. The sheathbills were frequently absolutely filthy though.
Sheathbills, the most terrestrial of Antarctica's vertebrates, have the chance to fully exploit the many new and empty niches that will appear on the continent. Millennia of speciation lead to new genera such as the crane-like Maudisae and Palithikisae 🐤 #spec-evo #specevo #digitalart #worldbuilding
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sheathbills, the most terrestrial of Antarctica's vertebrates, have the chance to fully exploit the many new and empty niches that will appear on the continent. Millennia of speciation lead to new genera such as the crane-like Maudisae and Palithikisae 🐤 #spec-evo #specevo #digitalart #worldbuilding
Yup! I was stationed at Palmer, and the icebreaker for the USAP leaves from Punta Arenas. I was sent down to draw these horrible little birds called Snowy Sheathbills that I love very much. They eat anything that would normally rot but just freezes there.
December 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yup! I was stationed at Palmer, and the icebreaker for the USAP leaves from Punta Arenas. I was sent down to draw these horrible little birds called Snowy Sheathbills that I love very much. They eat anything that would normally rot but just freezes there.
@heardislandgov.bsky.social Sen. Squelch can go eat 💩 animalia.bio/black-faced-...
April 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@heardislandgov.bsky.social Sen. Squelch can go eat 💩 animalia.bio/black-faced-...