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Great Skua
Stercorarius skua
Challenging
Least concern
Not photographed yet
Distribution
Range
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Quick facts
- Group
- Birds
- Family
- Stercorariidae
- Size
- 50–58 cm (length)
- Weight
- 1.2–1.7 kg
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Lifespan
- 15–20 yrs
- Habitat
- Open ocean, Coastal moorland, Rocky islands
About
The great skua, sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is roughly the size of a herring gull. It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken from other birds.
Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), abridged.