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great skua
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great skua
n.
A predatory gull-like sea bird (Catharacta skua) of northern regions, having brownish plumage.
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Noun1.great skuagreat skua - large brown skua of the northern Atlantic
Catharacta skua
bonxie, skua - gull-like jaeger of northern seas


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Discard dilemma When fishing fleets threw smaller amounts of discarded fish overboard, great skuas made up for lost meals by increasing attacks on other seabirds (165:115).
A spectrum of choices by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
Records stretching back 30 years indicate a tricky problem for marine conservation: When fishing vessels discard less fish-waste material, scavenging seabirds called great skuas attack and kill more neighboring seabirds.
Bird dilemma: more seabirds killed when boats discard fewer fish by Milius, S. / Science News
Male great skuas find divorce expensive, but that could be because the divorces were losers from the start, says Furness, who notes that divorced males tend to take longer than widowed birds to pair up again.
When birds divorce: who splits, who benefits, and who gets the nest by Milius, Susan / Science News
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