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Protection for a fee: Band-tailed Gulls and Red-legged Cormorants

10,000 Birds

With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Frigatebirds don’t occur in the cold waters of the coast of Peru and Chile, but Band-tailed Gulls (Larus belcheri) have developed similar strategy. Kleptoparasitismis is a word that just means parasitism by theft.