Typically, the female chooses the nest site and builds the nest.

This modification of the forest provides the ants with more nesting sites inside the stems of the Duroia trees.

The eggs and young of other birds are an important food source for most skua species during the nesting season.

On nesting beaches, they entangle young ones (Ross, 1987).

The responses from the plant life and bird life were spectacular with the team finding that seabirds were nesting successfully on McKean for the first time in nearly 10 years.