skua
IPA: skˈuʌ
noun
- Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches.
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Examples of "skua" in Sentences
- Skua is a seabird in the family Stercorariidae.
- I am sure that GBBG has been killed by the skua.
- Skua are the main danger for their eggs and chicks.
- Lucy later also became a fighter ace flying the Skua.
- Outside the breeding season, skuas take fish, offal and carrion.
- The presence of penguins also attracts the predatory Skua seabird.
- Observations on Incubation and Chick Rearing in the Antarctic Skua.
- The damage from the explosion caused the Skua to fall into the sea.
- The Skua is a sea bird, which takes the young Patagonian ducklings.
- There are drawings on some pages, see skua, but the standard is much higher.
- On Christmas Day we took a holiday, and Lindström prepared a banquet of skua gulls.
- An hour after breaking camp this morning two snowy petrels came sailing over us; a little while later a couple of skua gulls.
- Then, in one small part of the angry sea, there was panic as a great skua appeared and harried one young gannet until it dropped to the sea and dived.
- American sheathbill (Chionis alba); south polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki); brown skua (Catharacta lonnbergi); southern black-backed gull (Larus dominicanus); and,
- And further, past the valley, over the foothills, the crowds of Emperor penguins, the flocks of skua overhead, and the elephant seals sunning themselves on the rocky shore.
- The skua is only too happy to tell Mumble about his abduction by aliens, while the other birds groan and lament the retelling of a tale they’ve apparently heard too much about.
- As we were leaving this old friend and setting our course as it advised, to our unspeakable astonishment two great birds -- skua gulls -- suddenly came flying straight towards us.
- South Georgia supports a great number of sea birds, including penguin, a large colony of petrel and prions of various other species, along with shags, skua, gull, terns, South Georgia Pipits and Seals.
- The skua gulls settled very near us, and the dogs, no doubt taking them for baby seals, were of course ready to break the line of march, and go off hunting, but their keenness soon passed when they discovered that the game had wings.
- First, such reductions are likely to happen most rapidly in species that experience some physiological constraint at their southern range margin, for example, the winter thermal constraint postulated for cloudberry [23] or the summer thermal constraints postulated for the great skua (Catharacta skua [24]).