Long-tailed Skua ( Stercorarius longicaudus )

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Juvenile Long-tailed Skua can be a tricky species to identify, whether seen at distance on a seawatch or at close quarters on an inland field. A couple of birds have been well...

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Skua - Wikipedia

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Biology and habits[ edit ]

Outside the breeding season, skuas take fish, offal , and carrion . Many are partial kleptoparasites , comprising up to 95% of the feeding methods of wintering birds, by chasing gulls, terns and other seabirds to steal their catches, regardless of the size of the species attacked (up to three times heavier than the attacking skua). The larger species,...

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Date: 2017-03-25 18:58:31
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Long-tailed Jaeger - BirdForum Opus

Spitzbergen , Norway

Breeds in far northern areas from Greenland to Alaska , through most of Asia and northern Europe .

Winters primarily well south of the Equator, off the coasts of Africa , South America and probably Australia and New Zealand .

[ edit ] Taxonomy

Two subspecies are...

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On yesterday's Pelagic trip to the seven stones reef �I was lucky enough to see my 4th Fea's petrel and my 3rd in ...

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I am a born and bred Scillonian and have been running a passenger boat in scilly since 1992 when I took over from my Dad who had the Lily Of Laguna. I now have the Sapphire which I had...

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