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Sentence Examples Molecular dynamics analysis of a second phosphate site in the hemoglobins of the seabird, south polar skua. The walk would be about seven kilometers as the skua flies from our base camp to the top of Gorgon's Head. Votier says he's seen a skua catch a bird and hold it underwater to drown it. We were quite low on food, and our depot was about twelve kilometers away as the skua flies. A recent study found that a five per cent increase of birds in the skua diet would result in an annual loss of thousands of other seabirds. We had a week of short walks, drawing, filming and photography with snow petrels and gawky looking skua birds as our neighbours. The only living creature spotted outside of a couple of passing petrels and a skulking skua. The voracious skua and giant petrel are even known to attack the young or weak of other species, particularly penguins. They are all pirates, harassing other seabirds until they abandon their prey, which is then eaten by the skua. He had denied taking the egg of a rare red-throated diver and two eggs of the wild great skua. Had we been near enough we might have seen the skua stoop try catch the dropped fish before it reached the water, for that is the constant habit of this fierce aerial highway robber. I suppose nature hates emptiness... I was lost in thought thinking these gracious birds when all of a sudden a skua showed up, and there was one less petrel. In the first of this new series, he travels to the windswept Shetland Isles to study the Arctic skua. Glasgow University's Dr Bob Furness has reported sheep eating live Arctic tern and Arctic skua chicks on Foula, Shetland. It is likely that the arctic skua, which has been on the beach seen since the new year, is getting its bearings having been blown off course. One group was sending out loud distress calls as a skua bird, a giant-size potential predator, soared overhead. Lloyd Jones recounts his time at Captain Scott's camp in Antarctica, the magnitude of this icy museum eclipsed by the singular horror of Jones's witnessing an Adélie penguin chick being mauled by a predatory skua bird. The continuation of these boat trips over the next years will allow determining precisely the order of abundance of the skua species crossing Switzerland and the continent in post-breeding migration. The latter vantage point already has provided rare sightings of great skua and black-capped petrel this winter. They usually sneak out of the nest under the cover of darkness to avoid predators such as the black-backed gull and the great skua. Show More Sentences There was the occasion when two islanders in their fishing boat encountered a great skua holding down and drowning an eider duck. 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. It is renowned for its internationally important seabird colonies, including the world's third largest great skua colony, fulmars, gannets, shags, puffins and guillemots. All four species of skua were seen on a boat trip out to the continental shelf along with over 100 oceanic bottle-nosed dolphins and a blue shark. Chlamydophila abortus in a Brown skua from a subantarctic island. A Lapland bunting was a good find at Cemlyn, while more snow buntings were at Kinmel Bay and Bardsey, where a hooded crow and an early Arctic skua were seen. The Blackburn Skua was the first British aircraft specifically designed for dive-bombing, but it could also serve as a fighter. The boys loved the sight of a great Skua, or bonxie, attacking a much larger gannet to make it drop its load of fish. A Velvet Scoter was an unseasonal find off Aberdysynni and Monday's southerly winds brought an Arctic Skua to Criccieth. A Gannet was blown onto Porthmadog's Llyn Bach, followed by a Great Skua on nearby Glaslyn Marshes, where a Slavonian Grebe is overwintering. Less famous types of aircraft like the Fairey Fulmar and Blackburn Skua held the line during the first two years of action, yet today remain unknown except by enthusiasts. The prevailing wind should push them further north along with other birds such as Manx Shearwaters, Sabine's Gulls, four species of Skua and some Petrels. Two Royal Navy Lynx helicopters fired four Sea Skua missiles at her. Strong winds at the weekend brought unseasonal sightings of Storm-petrel and Great Skua to Rhos Point, while a Black Redstart on Bardsey was also notable. Examples from Classical Literature It seemed to me, forsooth, that a great black-backed gull or fierce skua would give me a fine flight or two. The flight of the skua is stronger and more rapid than that of any other Gull. Giant petrels and skua gulls swarmed in flocks round the seals' and penguins' carcases. Masses of Adelie penguins and chicks constituted the main population, and skua gulls with eggs were also observed. Attached to each rookery was a pair of skua gulls, who swooped down and quickly flew off with any eggs left for a moment untended. At this moment the great skua who had robbed the puffin of its fish came in sight of his nest. Scouties may be derived from the skua, though Mr. heddle gives an unpresentable derivation. But in that same instant the long beak of the skua caught it by the head. His special dish was penguins and skua gulls in cream sauce. Few birds are so courageous in defence of their nests as the skua. Huge necks of angular stone jut upward from penguin nesting grounds, perfect vantage points for Antarctic tern and skua birds. More nimble than he, the skua evaded the blow, and caught him by the neck. Find more words! 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