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Skua, the Glossary

The skuas are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae.^[1]

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Seabirds
Skuas
Taxa named by Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Auk

Auks or alcids are a group of birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.

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Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird louse

A bird louse is any chewing louse (small, biting insects) of order Phthiraptera which parasitizes warm-blooded animals, especially birds.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Brown skua

The brown skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as the Antarctic skua, subantarctic skua, southern great skua, southern skua, or hākoakoa (Māori), is a large seabird that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones and moves further north when not breeding. Skua and brown skua are skuas.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carrion

Carrion, also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.

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Chilean skua

The Chilean skua, also called the cinnamon skua (Stercorarius chilensis), is a large predatory seabird, which breeds in Argentina and Chile, but ranges as far north as Brazil and Peru when not breeding. Skua and Chilean skua are skuas.

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Elephant seal

Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Faroese language

Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Giant petrel

Giant petrels form a genus, Macronectes, from the family Procellariidae, which consists of two living and one extinct species.

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Great skua

The great skua (Stercorarius skua), sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. Skua and great skua are skuas.

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Gregory Mathews

Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England.

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Grey heron

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts of Africa.

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Gull

Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. Skua and Gull are seabirds.

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Holarctic realm

The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.

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Kleptoparasitism

Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lemming

A lemming is a small rodent, usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes.

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Long-tailed jaeger

The long-tailed skua or long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. Skua and long-tailed jaeger are skuas.

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Louis Pierre Vieillot

Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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North American English

North American English is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.

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Offal

Offal, also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal.

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Parasitic jaeger

The parasitic jaeger (North America) or Arctic skua (Europe) (Stercorarius parasiticus), is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. Skua and parasitic jaeger are skuas.

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Penguin

Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes. Skua and Penguin are seabirds.

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.

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Pomarine jaeger

The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. Skua and pomarine jaeger are skuas.

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Puffin

Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula. Skua and Puffin are taxa named by Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

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René Lesson

René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.

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Rynchops

The skimmers, forming the genus Rynchops, are tern-like birds in the family Laridae.

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Seabird

Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. Skua and Seabird are seabirds.

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Skúvoy

Skúgvoy (or Skúvoy, Skuø) is an island in the central Faroe Islands, located to the south of Sandoy.

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South polar skua

The south polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae. Skua and south polar skua are skuas.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Stercobilin

Stercobilin is a tetrapyrrolic bile pigment and is one end-product of heme catabolism.

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Stercoranism

Stercoranism (from, "dung") is a supposed belief or doctrine attributed reciprocally to the other side by those who in the eleventh century upheld and those who denied the Christian doctrine of transubstantiation, that the bread and wine offered in the Eucharist become in substance, but not in form, the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skua

Also known as Boatswain (bird), Catharacta, Hakoakoa, Jaeger (bird), Skua-gull, Skuas, Stercoraracidae, Stercoraridae, Stercorariidae, Stercorarius.

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Skua, the Glossary

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Seabirds

Skuas

Taxa named by Mathurin Jacques Brisson

References