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Definition of skua in English: skuanoun ˈskjuːəˈskjuə A large brownish predatory seabird related to the gulls, pursuing other birds to make them disgorge fish they have caught. Family Stercorariidae: genera Catharacta (four larger species) and Stercorarius (three smaller species, North American name: jaeger) Example sentencesExamples - One potential explanation - that choice of mates for female skuas at this colony is more limited - can probably be discounted.
- The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance.
- Similar anomalous patterns have been discovered in the skuas (Stercorariidae).
- In other parts of the world, jaegers are known as skuas.
- If you are visiting Ocean City, take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters, skuas, Wilson's storm-petrels, and Atlantic puffins.
- Beautiful weather, magnificent scenery and almost tame Arctic skuas make this a memorable excursion.
- Set in Antarctica, it has no human characters but focuses on the natural environment of the frozen continent, especially penguins and skuas.
- We were quite low on food, and our depot was about twelve kilometers away as the skua flies.
- Victims of egg-plundering skuas, which resemble large rapacious gulls, squawk indignantly.
- Votier says he's seen a skua catch a bird and hold it underwater to drown it.
- They concluded that reversed size dimorphism in skuas and jaegers was not attributable to breeding role specialization.
- A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island.
- The working theory is that tourists scare off the predatory skuas.
- We had a week of short walks, drawing, filming and photography with snow petrels and gawky looking skua birds as our neighbours.
- The walk would be about seven kilometers as the skua flies from our base camp to the top of Gorgon's Head.
- Perhaps hobbies follow prey south to tropical Africa in the same manner that skuas follow terns.
- And then the slow decline would set in, and then little Foula would be abandoned to the squabbling skuas and the wheeling puffins.
- One species bucked the general trend: the south polar skua, which hunts mainly penguin chicks and eggs.
- A recent study found that a five per cent increase of birds in the skua diet would result in an annual loss of thousands of other seabirds.
- Only a few runts, chicks whose parents had perhaps fallen prey to a toothy leopard seal, are left behind to feed the skuas.
Origin Late 17th century: modern Latin, from Faroese skúvur, from Old Norse skufr (apparently imitative). Rhymes Amur, brewer, chewer, Dewar, doer, ewer, hewer, Kahlua, lassoer, Nuer, pursuer, renewer, screwer, sewer, skewer, spewer, strewer, suer, tattooer, viewer, who're, wooer Definition of skua in US English: skuanounˈskjuəˈskyo͞oə A large brownish predatory seabird related to the gulls, pursuing other birds to make them disgorge fish they have caught. Family Stercorariidae: genera Catharacta (four larger species) and Stercorarius (three smaller species). See also jaeger Example sentencesExamples - The walk would be about seven kilometers as the skua flies from our base camp to the top of Gorgon's Head.
- The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance.
- One species bucked the general trend: the south polar skua, which hunts mainly penguin chicks and eggs.
- One potential explanation - that choice of mates for female skuas at this colony is more limited - can probably be discounted.
- Perhaps hobbies follow prey south to tropical Africa in the same manner that skuas follow terns.
- In other parts of the world, jaegers are known as skuas.
- Similar anomalous patterns have been discovered in the skuas (Stercorariidae).
- Beautiful weather, magnificent scenery and almost tame Arctic skuas make this a memorable excursion.
- We were quite low on food, and our depot was about twelve kilometers away as the skua flies.
- A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island.
- A recent study found that a five per cent increase of birds in the skua diet would result in an annual loss of thousands of other seabirds.
- Victims of egg-plundering skuas, which resemble large rapacious gulls, squawk indignantly.
- Only a few runts, chicks whose parents had perhaps fallen prey to a toothy leopard seal, are left behind to feed the skuas.
- Set in Antarctica, it has no human characters but focuses on the natural environment of the frozen continent, especially penguins and skuas.
- If you are visiting Ocean City, take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters, skuas, Wilson's storm-petrels, and Atlantic puffins.
- We had a week of short walks, drawing, filming and photography with snow petrels and gawky looking skua birds as our neighbours.
- The working theory is that tourists scare off the predatory skuas.
- And then the slow decline would set in, and then little Foula would be abandoned to the squabbling skuas and the wheeling puffins.
- Votier says he's seen a skua catch a bird and hold it underwater to drown it.
- They concluded that reversed size dimorphism in skuas and jaegers was not attributable to breeding role specialization.
Origin Late 17th century: modern Latin, from Faroese skúvur, from Old Norse skufr (apparently imitative). |