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What is the name of a gull-like predatory bird?
Skua. The skua species are aggresive hunters, feeding on fish, and the eggs and young of other seabirds.
What is an Arctic skua?
An Arctic skua is a seabird of the skua family, Latin name Stercorarius parasiticus.
What eats skua?
Skua predators include larger seabirds such as gulls and predatory mammals like foxes. However, skua populations are primarily threatened by human activities such as habitat destruction and climate change.
What animals eat the Antarctic skua?
Antarctic skua breed on Antarctica's beaches and otherwise live elsewhere. Skua chicks, like all bird chicks, are subject to being preyed upon by any raptor interested in feeding its young.
What animal eats the skua?
sea lions eat skua.
When was Brown Skua created?
Brown Skua was created in 1978.
What are scavengers in the Antarctic?
The skua bird is sometimes called a scavenger.
What sort of creature is a skua?
A skua is a big long winged ocean bird.
What is the name of an Arctic seabird with four letters?
Fred Skua or Tern
How can a large predator like the Skua survive in Antarctica?
These days, Skua have learned to hang around scientific station garbage areas where discarded food from humans is generally plentiful. Skua can live for 25 years, so their habit of feeding in these ways can be learned and practiced. Skua also feed on breeding penguin colonies -- capturing eggs and unprotected checks to feed their own young. Unprotected sea mammal pups are also targets for Skua.
How did the brown skua get its name and who named it?
The brown skua got its name from its color. The name comes from a Faroese word for the subspecies known in English as the great skua.
What is the name of a predatory gull-like bird?
Probably a skua.
