Protection for a fee: Band-tailed Gulls and Red-legged Cormorants
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. The Gull lands and assesses the situation waiting for the right time. Kleptoparasitismis is a word that just means parasitism by theft.
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