Raptor of the South

南方猛禽

• 批准号: 0839980
• 负责人: Christopher Linder
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Chris Linder Photography
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839980&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Raptor; South

The artist's goal is to increase public awareness and understanding of a historically misunderstood Antarctic bird species: the South Polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki). Skuas are powerful, stocky, gull-like seabirds. Although they spend most of their lives at sea, during the brief austral summer they raise their young on Antarctica's rocky shores. Some skuas nest near Adélie penguin colonies to take advantage of the abundant supply of penguin eggs and chicks from November to mid-January. These skuas often use elaborate cooperative tactics to outsmart the nesting penguins. This predatory behavior, and their reputation for aggressively defending their own nests, has earned them the nickname "raptor of the south."Although countless popular books and movies have been devoted to penguins, the complete story of the South Polar skua is relatively unknown to the public. This project will use still photographs and audio recordings to document the natural history of the South Polar skuas nesting at Cape Bird on Ross Island. Cape Bird is regarded as the classic location to study penguin-skua interactions, and researchers from NSF and Antarctica New Zealand (ANZ) have recently initiated a new study of how South Polar skua predation can limit the size of penguin subcolonies.

这位艺术家的目标是提高公众对一种历史上被误解的南极鸟类的认识和理解：南极贼鸥（Catharacta maccormicki）。贼鸥是一种强壮、结实、像海鸥的海鸟。虽然它们一生中大部分时间都在海上度过，但在短暂的南方夏季，它们会在南极洲的岩石海岸养育后代。从11月到1月中旬，一些贼鸥在阿迪斯利企鹅群附近筑巢，以利用企鹅蛋和雏鸟的丰富供应。这些贼鸥经常使用复杂的合作策略来智胜筑巢的企鹅。这种掠食行为，以及它们积极保护自己巢穴的名声，为它们赢得了“南方猛禽”的绰号。尽管无数的流行书籍和电影都是关于企鹅的，但南极贼鸥的完整故事却相对不为公众所知。该项目将使用静态照片和录音记录南极贼鸥在罗斯岛角伯德筑巢的自然历史。角鸟被认为是研究企鹅与贼鸥相互作用的经典地点，美国国家科学基金会和新西兰南极洲（ANZ）的研究人员最近开始了一项关于南极贼鸥捕食如何限制企鹅亚群规模的新研究。