skua in English
noun
1
a large brownish predatory seabird related to the gulls, pursuing other birds to make them disgorge fish they have caught.
The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas , guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance.
noun
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1. A South polar skua.
2. Besides the nonflying penguins, there are the South Polar skua and the Antarctic petrel.
3. 29 Going beak to beak, an adult king penguin challenges a skua attempting to make off with a freshly killed chick.
4. The Early Miocene "Larus" desnoyersii (SE France) and "L." pristinus (John Day Formation, Willow Creek, US) probably do not belong in this genus; the former may be a skua (Olson, 1985).