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Since the mid-1980s, his team has been studying a great skua breeding colony, analyzing bones and feathers in pellets that skuas cough up after feeding. A great skua (a gull-like, predatory bird), defending its nest in the Falkland Islands, proved too much, knocking out one of the most famous nature photographers of our time. The male great skua may be out at sea during the fight and come home to find a new mate waiting for him. |
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great skua - large brown skua of the northern Atlantic