| Beautiful weather, magnificent scenery and almost tame Arctic skuas make this a memorable excursion. |
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| One group is studying kelp gulls, south polar skuas and sheathbills and another group is studying Adelie penguins. |
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| The great skuas, known locally as bonxies, which live by stealing fish from smaller birds, are displaying disturbing behavioural changes. |
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| Only a few runts, chicks whose parents had perhaps fallen prey to a toothy leopard seal, are left behind to feed the skuas. |
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| And then the slow decline would set in, and then little Foula would be abandoned to the squabbling skuas and the wheeling puffins. |
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| Perhaps hobbies follow prey south to tropical Africa in the same manner that skuas follow terns. |
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| A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island. |
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| They concluded that reversed size dimorphism in skuas and jaegers was not attributable to breeding role specialization. |
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| Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children. |
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| Victims of egg-plundering skuas, which resemble large rapacious gulls, squawk indignantly. |
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| Set in Antarctica, it has no human characters but focuses on the natural environment of the frozen continent, especially penguins and skuas. |
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| A short sea watch produced a flurry of activity, with 5 Great Skuas passing north in the space of a few minutes. |
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| Throughout the isles you'll come across throngs of Arctic terns and both species of skuas, as well as black guillemots, gannets, shags, and Storm and Leach's petrels. |
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| If you are visiting Ocean City, take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters, skuas, Wilson's storm-petrels, and Atlantic puffins. |
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| The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance. |
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| The working theory is that tourists scare off the predatory skuas. |
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| Some species such as skuas, jaegers, and sheathbills are considered obligate kleptoparasites, particularly during the breeding season or on migration. |
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| After his trip to Inishark, Co Galway, to see the great skuas, he's going in search of more of Ireland's lesser-known feathered friends. |
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| Most famously, frigatebirds and skuas engage in this behaviour, although gulls, terns and other species will steal food opportunistically. |
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| On steep mountainsides breed large colonies of auks, puffins, skuas, and kittiwakes. |
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| They are even said to dominate gulls, skuas, and fulmars that may be competing with them. |
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| Within the order, the terns form a lineage with the gulls, and, less closely, with the skimmers, skuas, and auks. |
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| The cocktail class racer, also known as skuas or plywood skimmers, quickly became a capstone project. |
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| Perfluorooctanesulfonate and related fluorochemicals in albatrosses, elephant seals, penguins, and polar skuas from the Southern Ocean. |
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| Many seabirds breed on the island, including Arctic terns and Arctic skuas. |
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| The area is home to huge colonies of gannets, puffins, skuas and other seabirds. |
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| Some seabirds, principally those that nest in tundra, as skuas and phalaropes do, will migrate over land as well. |
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| One second's lapse of concentration and the skuas and sheathbills will take their meal. |
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| These nesters include species of albatrosses, petrels, skuas, gulls and terns. |
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| Great skuas Eat fish thrown from trawlers but a decline in fishing means fewer fish are thrown back. |
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| Adults may be robbed of their catch by avian kleptoparasites such as frigatebirds, skuas, other terns or large gulls. |
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| Both sooty and Balearic shearwaters were seen and arctic, pomarine and great skuas logged. |
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| Little Gulls, Pomarine Skuas and thousands of Guillemots were among the other seabirds spotted by hardy souls who braved the elements. |
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| The picture above shows two Pomarine Skuas still in the high Arctic last week, so there's plenty time yet. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| Otters, red throated divers and great skuas are the neighbours. |
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| Big bruising pomarine and great skuas sailed by while three of the five long tailed skuas we saw came fairly close in, dainty by comparison, but still masters of the air. |
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| Adelie penguins, meanwhile, have their work cut out keeping their chicks safe from skuas, and a minke whale suffers at the hands of a family of killer whales. |
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| Weekend gales brought Little Auks off Rhos Point, the Little Orme and Point Lynas, Great Skuas in Holyhead Bay, and Little Gulls in Bull Bay and on flooded Glaslyn Marshes. |
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