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	Sheathbill - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Sheathbill, so soon as it was brought to the notice of naturalists, was recognized as belonging to a genus hitherto unknown, and J. Forster in 1788 (Enchiridion, p.
		The eggs of both species, though of peculiar appearance, bear an unmistakable likeness to those of oyster-catchers, while occasionally exhibiting a resemblance to those of the tropic-birds.
		The systematic position of the sheathbills has been the subject of much hesitation, but they are now placed in a special family, Chionidae, amongst Charadriiform birds (see BIRDS), not far from the curious little group of "seed-snipes" of the genera Thinocorys and Attagis, which are peculiar to certain localities in S. America and its islands.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sheathbill (611 words)

	FORAGING ECOLOGY OF PALE-FACED SHEATHBILLS IN COLONIES OF SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS AT KING GEORGE ISLAND, ANTARCTICA
		The Pale-faced Sheathbill (Chionis alba) is an opportunistic predator-scavenger.
		Sheathbills (Chionis spp.) are opportunistic predators and scavengers breeding on the Antarctic Peninsula and subantarctic islands (Watson 1975).
		Sheathbills concentrate their activity among seals until the beginning of the pygoscelid penguin breeding season that corresponds with the end of seal pupping (end of November for South Shetland Is- lands).
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v067n02/p0292-p0299.html (3960 words)

	Sheathbills - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sheathbills are found all around the rocky shorelines of the Antarctic Peninsula and sub-antarctic islands.
		The Snowy sheathbills are somewhat larger, with noticeably longer wings, and occur at South Georgia Island, the South Shetlands, the South Orkneys and on the Antarctic Peninsula.
		Sheathbills nest in rocky crevices in summer, usually near penguin colonies, where the scavenging is best and where they seem to have no fear.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/birds/sheathbills.shtml (415 words)

	Snowy Sheathbill - Birds - Snow Dwellers - Animal Planet
		Despite their small size, snowy sheathbills show no fear and will literally push a young penguin out of the way to catch the food as it falls from its parent’s mouth.
		Sheathbills are amazingly hardly and can tolerate extremes of temperature by fluffing their feathers for increased insulation.
		Snowy sheathbills, however, unlike their hardier cousins, stay out of the path of sea-ice and move north to South America and the Falklands in the winter.
	www.animalplanetasia.com /snow_dwellers/birds/snowy_sheath_bill/index.shtml (157 words)

	sheathbill - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about sheathbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The snowy or greater sheathbill Chionis alba occurs in the Antarctic region and grows to a length of 39 cm/15 in.
		Their own nests are conglomerations of litter – bone, guano, and the remains of dead chicks.
		Sheathbills are unique as Antarctica's only genuine land-bird, spending most of their time scavenging in penguin colonies.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /sheathbill (166 words)

	Snowy Sheathbill
		nowy sheathbills are gregarious and pugnacious birds, and except during the breeding season, they live in small flocks, feeding together and often fighting.
		Sheathbills are avid scavengers and haunt seal and penguin colonies to seize afterbirths or weak young.
		Sheathbills nest in isolated pairs in a crevice or among rocks.
	www.mbgnet.net /salt/sandy/animals/snow.html (213 words)

	Avian Demography Unit: Lesser Sheathbill Chionis minor Paddy
		The Lesser Sheathbill (or "Paddy") occurs mostly in colonies of penguins and seals.
		The Lesser Sheathbill breeds on four subantarctic archipelagos of the southern Indian Ocean: Kerguelen Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands, Crozet Archipelago, and the Prince Edward Islands.
		Breeding adult Lesser Sheathbills seldom wander far throughout the year, and movements farther than 1 km from their nest sites are exceptional.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/species/sheabill.htm (510 words)

	Sheathbill
		The sheathbills are a small family of birds confined to Antarctic regions.
		They derive their English name from the horny sheath which partially covers the upper mandible of their stout bills.
		The sheathbills are scavengers, but will take chicks and eggs as well as offal.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chionididae.html (91 words)

	SHEATHBILL - Online Information article about SHEATHBILL
		French explorer, and here, among many other kinds of birds, was a Sheathbill, which for a See also:
		Antarctic Ocean; but, as will be seen, its distinctness has been subsequently admitted.
		The systematic position of the sheathbills has been the subject of much hesitation, but they are now placed in a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SHEATHBILL.html (965 words)

	S Sheathbills
		This bull was trying to sleep, but every time the bull closed his eyes the Sheathbill ran in and pecked at the crusted blood on his nose.
		The bull would roar at him and the Sheathbill would saunter away quite nonchalant.
		As soon as the eyelid was closed the Sheathbill resumed his attack!
	www.mclaren.gs /s_sheathbills.htm (86 words)

	K.E.P. Sheathbill
		An Elephant Seal pup is picked-on (literally) by a Snowy Sheathbill at King Edward Point.
		Every time it tried to relax and sleep the Sheathbill would run in and peck at it's tail.
		The Sheathbills continually harass the seals by pecking at their wounds.
	www.mclaren.gs /k_e_p__sheathbill.htm (110 words)

	ANTARCTIC BIRD-BANDING BY THE FALKLAND ISLANDS DEPENDENCIES SURVEY, 1945-1957 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sheathbill (Chionis alba) (Table IX) Band size recommended:-4 Di Sheathbills are aberrant shore birds, and the only species in the Antarctic without webbed feet.
		Mansfield counted 58 Sheathbill nests in the Gourlay penguin rookery at Signy Is.
		The Sheathbills were evenly distributed throughout the rookery; they appear to have sharply defined nesting and foraging territories.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v029n01/p0001-p0026.html (17964 words)

	NatureWorks - Charadriiformes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sheathbills live in the Antarctic near the shore.
		There are two species in this family: greater or snowy sheathbill and the fl-billed sheathbill.
		They are entirely white, have short wings and have a horny sheath that covers the upper part of their bills.
	www.nhptv.org /Natureworks/charadriiformes.htm (1042 words)

	sheathbill - OneLook Dictionary Search
		sheathbill : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		sheathbill : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		SHEATHBILL : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=sheathbill (179 words)

	Snowy Sheathbills and what you really need to know
		There are four sub-species of Black-faced Sheathbills recognised - differences being in the shape of the sheath and the colour of facial wattles and their legs.)
		During the breeding season Snowy Sheathbills can be found round the rocky shorelines of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetlands, South Orkneys and South Georgia.
		Non breeding birds and during the winter (of the Southern Hemisphere) birds are found in the south east of South America - Patagonia, Uruguay, the Falklands and occasionally as far north as Brazil.
	www.snowysheathbill.com (290 words)

	Snowy Sheathbill, Chionis alba - South Seas Companion Natural Phenomenon
		The Snowy Sheathbill is to be found on the subantartic islands, although despite having small wings it is commonly encountered far out to sea in the high southern latitudes.
		Snowy Sheathbills grow to a body length of around 40 centimetres and to a wing span of about 80 centimetres.
		They are easily recognizable by their relatively small wings and all white plumage.
	southseas.nla.gov.au /biogs/P000394b.htm (110 words)

	DCXP Mountain Journeys 02 - Dispatches - By CONTACT3.0
		After a great nights sleep in the harbour of Deception island we headed 35 miles North to Hannah point, which was a fantastic landing site.
		The diversity of wildlife was amazing; Elephant seals, Leopard seals, Antarctic fur seals, Minke and Humpback whales, Sheathbill birds, Gentoo and Chin Strap penguins, but unfortunately no Macaroni's this time.
		A high light was the interaction between the young penguin chicks (moulting phase), Southern Giant Petrels and Skuas(predatory birds) who marauded the seemingly helpless and dazed chicks.
	www.humanedgetech.com /expedition/054dcxp02/showDispatch.php?id=18924&exp=151 (439 words)

	Chris Wilson's Gaggle Newsletter
		Note the counted 371 Gentoo chicks in just one créche — they were actually at the site where my monitored nest had been.
		Also our highest count of Snowy Sheathbills — 50 — was had at Paradise Harbour on the same date.
		BIRDS: Giant Petrel; Wilson’s Storm Petrel; Gentoo Penguin; Snowy Sheathbill; Antarctic Cormorant; Antarctic Brown Skua; South Polar Skua; Kelp Gull; Antarctic Tern.
	www.snowysheathbill.com /gaggle.php (1300 words)

	Antarctic_Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They make a living by lurking amongst the penguins, waiting for a parent to begin reguritating krill for a chick.
		Tthen, just at the right second, the sheathbill jumps up and kicks the parent in the head, making it spill its krill on the ground, which the sheathbill snatches up.
		They're kind of pigeon-like, with some bare, pink skin on their faces.
	www.penguin-quilts.com /antarctic_birds.htm (216 words)

	phorum - SABirdNet - [SABN] Info Sheathbill
		I was fortunate enough to see the Sheathbill late on Saturday afternoon
		It was on the harbour west key and the bird walked right up to us and
		Wednesday and would like to go and see the sheathbill, I lost the contact=
	www.surfbirds.com /phorum/read.php?f=43&i=4345&t=4345 (627 words)

	Black-faced Sheathbill, Chionis minor, in front of a King Penguin Colony. Kerguelen Island. Sub Antarctic Island: Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Black-faced Sheathbill, Chionis minor, in front of a King Penguin Colony.
		Sub Antarctic Island: Frank Todd: Arctic and Antarctic photographs, pictures and images from Bryan and Cherry Alexander Photography.
		FT0161-00: Black-faced Sheathbill, Chionis minor, in front of a King Penguin Colony.
	www.arcticphoto.co.uk /supergal/ft/ft01/ft0161-00.htm (41 words)

	Biologia reproductiva y alimenticia de la paloma antartica
		Breeding and feeding biology of Greater Sheathbill at Antarctica and Argentine coast.
		Egg morphology and chicks growth (weight, wing lenght, tarsus lenght, bill lenght).
		1993 Favero, M. Pale Faced Sheathbill Chionis alba.
	gcmd.nasa.gov /records/GCMD_CDA_AR_BIO_GREATER_SHEATHBILL.html (274 words)

	Life-history variations of the Lesser Sheathbill Chionis minor in contrasting habitats
		Life-history variations of the Lesser Sheathbill Chionis minor in contrasting habitats
		Title: Life-history variations of the Lesser Sheathbill Chionis minor in contrasting habitats
		Description: From 1987 until 1995, life-history traits of the Lesser Sheathbill Chionis minor in the Kerguelen Archipelago were compared with those at other localities, where this species breeds in seabird colonies.
	159.189.176.141 /xml/CSA-PL/36/3995228.html (109 words)

	PostPoems - The Sheathbill That Blew Up My Cow by: Springtime Rose
		PostPoems - The Sheathbill That Blew Up My Cow by: Springtime Rose
		On to a talcum powder colored sheathbill passing by.
		For it was me he was ready to kill.
	www.postpoems.com /cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi?pid=54660 (89 words)

	Talk:Seabird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In research today the loons and grebes are treated as waterbirds, not seabirds, and the anhinga is only marine over a tiny portion of its range.
		The sheathbill is usually treated as a wader/shorebird.
		I am using the Schreiber and Burger 2002 as a guide in this respect, and if anyone feels strongly about this then let me know.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Seabird (206 words)

	phorum - SABirdNet - [SABN] Greater Sheathbill
		Eugene Fourie reports a GREATER SHEATHBILL today in the Cape Town harbour
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		The Sheathbill is alive and well in The Port of Cape
	www.surfbirds.com /phorum/read.php?f=43&i=4310&t=4310 (206 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World - Gulls
		Conservation rankings are from the preliminary guidelines set out by BirdLife International and posted to Seabirds Internet discussion group by John Cooper.
		Also known as Wattled Sheathbill, Snowy Sheathbill, American Sheathbill, Greater Sheathbill, Snowy Paddy
		Also known as Lesser Sheathbill or Lesser Paddy
	www.oceanwanderers.com /GullsList.html (447 words)

	Mike Danzenbaker's Snowy Sheathbill (Chionis alba) Photo Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mike Danzenbaker's Snowy Sheathbill (Chionis alba) Photo Page
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		To return to this page, use your browser's "back" button or click on the species name in the list along the right side.
	www.avesphoto.com /website/SG/species/SHBSNO.htm (76 words)

	American Sheathbill Coaster - Customize for Free!
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		Learn more about the American Sheathbill at junglewalk.com
		Buy a 3 3/4" square wooden coaster with cork bottom.
	www.junglewalk.com /shop/Products/American-Sheathbill-Coaster-1476.htm (71 words)

	Eagle-Eye Tours Antarctica Voyage
		The scenery here is breathtaking, ice formations are fantastic, and wildlife astonishing.
		During our voyage, we encounter colonies of King, Adelie, Magellanic, Chinstrap, Gentoo and Rockhopper Penguins, possibly also Macaroni Penguins, three species of skuas, the immaculately-white Snow Petrel, Snowy Sheathbill, the handsome Imperial Shag, and Weddell, Crabeater and the sinister-looking Leopard Seals loafing on the ice-flows or along the shorelines.
		Our return journey back across the famous Drake Passage will turn up new sightings – no two crossings are the same – and then back to Ushuaia.
	www.eagle-eye.com /Locations/Antarctica_voyage.html (2057 words)

	Snowy Sheathbill, Chionis albus, at Gourdin Island, Antarctic Peninsula
		Snowy Sheathbill, Chionis albus, at Gourdin Island, Antarctic Peninsula
		Snowy Sheathbill at Gourdin Island, Antarctica - November 24, 2004.
		Back to Snowy Sheathbill Image Thumbnails for More Photos
	www.birdinfo.com /A_Images_S/SnowySheathbill_0003.html (28 words)

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