Noun:

ஒருவகை பெரும் கடற் பறவை,

skua's Usage Examples:

rookery 20 islands are home to five seal species, massive penguin rookeries as well as a wealth of seabirds from albatross to skuas.

In Jameson Land, we look for musk oxen and collared lemmings and predatory long-tailed skua, snowy owl and arctic fox.

Here there are Weddell and elephant seals, skuas, giant petrels, Antarctic terns and rookeries of chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins.

Other birds to look out for are blue-eyed shags, kelp gulls, cape petrels, skuas, snowy sheathbills and antarctic terns.

They are the home of myriads of sea-birds and one of the nesting-places of the bonxie, or great skua (Lestris cataractes), which used to be fostered by the islanders to keep down the eagles, and the eggs of which are still strictly preserved.

However, the Grey-headed Sparrows nesting in rafters of the lodge were very accommodating !Here you also find nesting arctic skua and bonxie (great skua).

Here you also find nesting arctic skua and bonxie (great skua ).

skua, is not known to exhibit the remarkable dimorphism to which the two preceding are subject.

rookerythere are Weddell and elephant seals, skuas, giant petrels, Antarctic terns and rookeries of chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins.

Also a great northern diver and 2 arctic skua flew east.

In addition to the penguins numerous other sea birds nest on the islands, as petrels, albatrosses, terns, skuas and prions.

Synonyms:

Catharacta skua, genus Catharacta, great skua, bonxie, Catharacta, jaeger,

Antonyms:

None