Two adult skua at nest site with excluded chick in background

The most common resut of sibling aggression is that the weaker chick is excluded from access to parental care. The result is that it will die from either exposure, starvation, or attacks from other skuas.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Young, Euan
Format:	Still Image
Language:	unknown
Published:	School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland 1993
Subjects:	Birds Land & seabirds Aves Charadriiformes Stercorariidae - Skuas Chatharacta maccormicki - South Polar Skua Cape Crozier Crozier Ross Island Antarc* Antarctica
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Description
Summary:	The most common resut of sibling aggression is that the weaker chick is excluded from access to parental care. The result is that it will die from either exposure, starvation, or attacks from other skuas.