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bonxie
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bonxie [ˈbɒŋksɪ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a name, originally Shetland, for the great skua (see skua)
[probably of Scandinavian origin: compare Norwegian bunke heap, something dumpy]
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Noun1.bonxie - gull-like jaeger of northern seasbonxie - gull-like jaeger of northern seas    
skua
jaeger - rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
Catharacta, genus Catharacta - skuas
Catharacta skua, great skua - large brown skua of the northern Atlantic
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They had strayed off the paths and got too close to nesting sites used by Skuas - known locally as bonxies - which have little fear.
Chopper rescue for tourists divebombed by angry birds; COUPLE GOT TOO ... by The Mirror (London, England)
The perilous fortunes of seabird populations in the far north has seen great skuas, or bonxies, as one of the few species to thrive - but they have started feeding on a variety of species, rather than mobbing gulls to give up their food.
country matters by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Wouldn't it be ironic if the pleas of Scotland's fishermen at last got a hearing in Brussels not because the Commission are worried about fishermen's children being deprived, but because it can't bear the thought of starving bonxies gobbling up hapless puffins and guillemots.
Selina Scott: Fish policy strictly for the birds by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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