When the Giant Petrels feed on the carcasses of seals, they make a hole in the skin, and then poke their entire heads down inside the carcass. Their blood soaked plumage is a striking sight particularly on the lighter coloured Northern Giant Petrels and the white Southern Giant Petrels. Carcasses of dead seals though so not lay around long. The Giant Petrels and Skuas feed voraciously upon them, leaving little more than a deflated skin behind.
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| Northern Giant Petrel after a feed. Photo: Lionel Whitehorn |
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| Northern Giant Petrel dripping with seal blood. Photo: Lionel Whitehorn |
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| Northern Giant Petrel feeding on a seal. Photo: Lionel Whitehorn |
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