The Garbage Cleaners of Antarctica

The snowy sheathbill makes its nest out of feathers, seaweed and shells. It lays about 2-3 creamy white eggs per year. It stays with the same partner every year. The mother sheathbill keeps its chicks in a small rock crevice.

It stays with the same partner every year. The mother sheathbill keeps its chicks in a small rock crevice.

The garbage cleaner of Antarctica is the snowy sheath bill [ also known as chionis albus]. It lives in the antarctic and you can only find it in the antarctic peninsula. This scavenging bird is 41 cm in length and is half a kilogram in weight. The puffy&nbsp;white fethard bird has light pink feet and dark black eyes. The animal is a predator and it eats any edible thing in its way.

The reason it's called&nbsp;the garbage cleaner ofAntarctica is because as i said earlier it eats dead animal bodies and more so that makes it clean the garbage of Antarctica. The sheath bill is the only land bird&nbsp;the breeds on the antarctic shore. Its nest is made out of a smelly jumble of feathers and seaweed in a small&nbsp;crevice. It grabs food from scientists when the scientists are studying penguins because it knows that humans have food. To reduce heat loss it stands on one leg.

It eats dead animal bodies,penguin feces,chicks of cormorant,chicks of penguins and eggs of cormorant and penguin.

The snowy sheathbill moves north when the worst weather starts. 

Because it does not have webbed feet it uses its talons to break apart the dead bodies.

It stands on one leg to reduce heat loss.

To get a good food supply it usually makes its nest around penguin colonies.

The snowy sheathbill has talons to break apart the dead bodies.

The snowy sheathbill steals food from penguins when the penguins are feeding their chicks 

Predator...an animal that eats other animals

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