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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.
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 ...
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]
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Sabine's gull, Xema sabini; Slender-billed gull, Chroicocephalus genei (A) Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus; Little gull, Hydrocoloeus minutus; Laughing gull, Leucophaeus atricilla (A) Franklin's gull, Leucophaeus pipixcan (A) Mediterranean gull, Ichthyaetus melanocephalus; Audouin's gull, Ichthyaetus audouinii (A) Common gull ...
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)
This is a list of the bird species recorded on the Campbell Islands.There are 109 bird species on the Campbell Islands, which belong to New Zealand and are about 600 km to the south.
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