skuan.
/ˈskjuːə/, U.S. /ˈskjuə/ Ornithology.
a. A predatory gull belonging to the genus Stercorarius, esp. the largest European species, S. catarrhactes, which breeds in Shetland, the Færöes, and Iceland.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > stercorarius skua (skua)
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 349 Hapning to read over the description of Hoier's Skua..I find it exactly agrees with ours, so that I do not at all doubt but this Bird is the Skua of Hoier.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 417 They hold a knife erect over their heads, on which the Skua will transfix itself.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 109 We saw a bird..which proved to be the skua or great northern gull.
1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. i. 214 The Skuas are more partial to fish..than the Jagers.
1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. i. 216 Pomarine Skua.
1896 J. Skelton Summers & Winters at Balmawhapple I. 216 The tarrock skims lightly along, and screams as the skua comes prowling round the cape.
b. attributive in skua-gull.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > member of
man-of-war hawk1657
sea-eagle1668
sea-hen1676
skua1678
skua-gull1768
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > stercorarius skua (skua)
plunger1655
dung bird1677
skua1678
dung hunter1694
skua-gull1768
dirty allan1771
bonxiea1777
dung teaser1841
weese allan1849
sea-hawk1852
turd-bird1864
shoemaker1867
dirt-bird1885
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) II. 447 (heading) Skua Gull.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 370 Solan geese, skua-gulls and land birds on the wing.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 26 A sort of false cere occurs in some water birds, as the jaegers, or skua-gulls.
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