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skua

bird species

Also known as: Catharacta skua, bonxie, great skua

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characteristics

In skua
…also known in Britain as skuas are called jaegers in the United States (see jaeger). All belong to the family Stercorariidae (order Charadriiformes).
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nesting

In charadriiform: Gulls (suborder Lari)
…their nesting habits, numbers of skuas (Catharacta skua) may nest on the fringes of penguin colonies; in Iceland they nest in clumps of vegetation on great outwash gravel plains. Jaegers (three species of Stercorarius) nest on the tundra, where both sexes share in incubating the two eggs. Some species have…
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