Sheathbills
Snowy Sheathbill
Chionis albus
The Snowy Sheathbill (Chionis albus) is a 676 g ocean-going bird that eats a bit of everything. It migrates.
- Family
- Sheathbills
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 676 g
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 8
Recorded in Antarctica, Argentina, S. Geo. and the Is., Falkland Is., Chile, Uruguay, South Africa, Brazil.
Where to see it: Half Moon Island (Antarctica); St Andrew's Bay (South Georgia and the Islands); Brown Bluff (Antarctica); Gold Harbour (South Georgia and the Islands); Salisbury Plain (South Georgia and the Islands).
Photo: (c) Nicolas Olejnik, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist