Translation for '
Skua' from English to Swedish
NOUN | a skua | skuas | |
SYNO | bonxie | skua |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Wildlife in the area includes the skua, the kittiwake and the herring gull.
- This is thought to benefit the bird by reducing kleptoparasitism by the Arctic skua, which harasses puffins until they drop their fish loads.
- The main predator of penguin chicks on Magdalena Island is the Skua (Stercorarius chilensis).
- The moorland to the north of Gress is a breeding site for Arctic and great skua in the summer.
- Other wildlife in the area includes the great skua (also known by its Norse name "bonxie") peregrines, pinnipeds and cetaceans.
- The south polar skua ("Stercorarius maccormicki") was named for him by Howard Saunders. McCormick shot the type specimen on 12 January 1841, on Possession Island, Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- The south polar skua ("Stercorarius maccormicki") is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae.
- DNA-DNA hybridisation is outdated, and results have sometimes led to misleading conclusions about species, as with the pomarine and great skua.
- The Calamita's coast has been nicknamed "Costa dei Gabbiani" ("Skua Coast"), after the numerous skuas which nest in the cliffs.
- "Shi'a–sheer", and "Maia–mire", and "skua" may be identical with the second syllable of "obscure".
- Breiðamerkursandur is an important breeding ground for birds, for example Arctic tern and great skua.
- The island is home to a number of different types of wildlife, including puffins, great skua and Manx shearwater.
- The Early Miocene "Larus" desnoyersii" (southeastern France) and "L." pristinus" (John Day Formation, Willow Creek, U.S.) probably do not belong in this genus; the former may be a skua.
- The skuas [...] are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus "Stercorarius", the only genus in the family Stercorariidae.
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