| 单词 | pomarine jaeger |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspomarine jaeger Designating a large, Arctic-breeding skua, Stercorarius pomarinus, having dark brown plumage (with whitish underparts in a pale morph), and extended, twisted, middle tail feathers. Now only in pomarine jaeger (U.S.), pomarine skua. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [adjective] > of the skua pomarine1826 pomatorhine1884 1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. i. 216 Pomarine Skua. 1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) IV. 357 Pomarine storm gull. 1836 R. King Narr. Journey Arctic Ocean I. viii. 242 Like the pomarine jager, or gull-hunter, this bird subsists on putrid fish. 1885 H. Seebohm Hist. Brit. Birds III. 349 The Pomarine Skua does not differ from the other Skuas in the structure of its nostrils. 1917 J. Dixon in A. C. Bent Life Hist. Amer. Shore Birds: Order Limicolae (Part I) (1927) 195 This method of nesting seems to be the most effective way of escaping..the notice of the countless jaegers, both parasitic and pomarine. 1959 Times 15 Sept. 12/5 In the rarer long-tailed skua the middle tail feathers are excessively prolonged,..and in the twist-tailed or pomarine skua they are curiously twisted. 2004 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 3 Mar. c2 The pomarine jaeger is named for a peculiar scale-like covering over its nostrils. < as lemmas |
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