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- noun Plural form of
skua .
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Examples
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As a result, the penguins were exposed to large predatory birds, called skuas, Dr Bergstrom said.
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However, calling is a costly activity in some petrel species since avian predators, such as skuas Catharacta skua lönnbergi, use calls to localize their petrel prey
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A brisk walk out to the tip of the head itself is a great observatory for spotting gannets, shearwaters, skuas and other sea birds, and occasionally migrating whales.
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Samit Basu at 09: 05 on 13 June who is stirring stormclouds rowdy? who meets angels and says howdy? who makes squiffy skuas squelch?
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Bonxies, or great skuas, which breed over the moor behind the cliffs at Hermaness and on Noss, have an even more comically bathetic voice.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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I spot three skuas coming in off the sea at Hermaness.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Birds of prey such as snowy owls, short-eared owls (Asio flammeus), jaegers (skuas – Stercorarius spp.), and rough-legged buzzards (Buteo lagopus) are lemming and vole specialists that are only able to breed at peak lemming densities and which aggregate in areas with high lemming densities.
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This also means they do not have any means of defending themselves if attacked by skuas large gulls - I remember them from the Happy Feet game I have for my Wii.
Naima update again magnio 2009
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Long-term monitoring of small rodents at the border of arctic Fennoscandia provides evidence of pronounced shifts in small rodent community structure and dynamics that have resulted in a decline in predators (including Arctic fox, snowy owls, buzzards, and skuas) that specialize in feeding on small rodents.
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Evolutionary and ecological constraints on the breeding distributions and behaviour of skuas.
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges 2009
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