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Skua

noun
1.
Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.  Synonym: bonxie.



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Catharacta skua
arctic skua
great skua


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"Skua" Quotes from Famous Books



... part they were ice mews (Larus eburneus), kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), fulmars (Procellaria glacialis), and now and then a blue gull (L. glaucus), a herring gull (L. argentatus?), or a black guillemot (Uria grylle); once or twice we also saw a skua (probably Lestris parasitica)—for instance, on July 14th. On July 21st we had a visit ...
— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen


Words linked to "Skua" :   arctic skua, jaeger, genus Catharacta, Catharacta


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