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The eggs and chicks of other seabirds, primarily penguins, are an important food source for most skua species during the nesting season. [6] In the southern oceans and Antarctica region, some skua species (especially the south polar skua) will readily scavenge carcasses at breeding colonies of both penguins and pinnipeds. Skuas will also kill ...
The great skua (Stercorarius skua), sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is roughly the size of a herring gull . It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken from other birds.
South polar skua This page was last edited on 6 July 2018, at 05:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) The snowy owl( Bubo scandiacus) is common across Severnaya Zemlya in years with high lemming populations. Lapland bunting (Calcarius lapponicus). pomarine skua (Stercorarius pomarinus) Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea)
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Brown skua eyeing a king penguin carcass. This is the heaviest species of skua and rivals the largest gulls, the great black-backed gull and glaucous gull, as the heaviest species in the shorebird order although not as large in length or wingspan. [2]
Adelie penguins in Antarctica. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Antarctica.The avifauna of Antarctica include a total of 63 species, of which 1 is endemic.This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
Colonel Luis Arturo Rodríguez Meneses Air Base (Spanish: Base Aérea Coronel Luis Arturo Rodríguez Meneses) (ICAO: SKUA) is a Colombian military base assigned to the Colombian Aerospace Force (Fuerza Aeroespacial Colombiana or FAC) Eastern Air Group (Grupo Aéreo del Oriente or GAORI).