Skua

Definition

skua /'skju:å/ n ျမစ္ေတြး၊ စင္ေရာ္ငွက္တို႔ႏွင့္ဆင္ေသာ “စကူအာ” ပင္လယ္ေပ်ာ္ငွက္ႀကီး။

Examples

1. ‘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.’
2. ‘One potential explanation - that choice of mates for female skuas at this colony is more limited - can probably be discounted.’
3. ‘Similar anomalous patterns have been discovered in the skuas (Stercorariidae).’
4. ‘And then the slow decline would set in
5. and then little Foula would be abandoned to the squabbling skuas and the wheeling puffins.’
6. ‘In other parts of the world
7. jaegers are known as skuas.’
8. ‘Votier says he's seen a skua catch a bird and hold it underwater to drown it.’
9. ‘They concluded that reversed size dimorphism in skuas and jaegers was not attributable to breeding role specialization.’
10. ‘The walk would be about seven kilometers as the skua flies from our base camp to the top of Gorgon's Head.’
11. ‘Victims of egg-plundering skuas
12. which resemble large rapacious gulls
13. squawk indignantly.’
14. ‘One species bucked the general trend: the south polar skua
15. which hunts mainly penguin chicks and eggs.’
16. ‘We were quite low on food
17. and our depot was about twelve kilometers away as the skua flies.’
18. ‘The abundance of gulls
19. terns
20. skuas
21. guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction
22. as well as of global wildlife significance.’
23. ‘A third of the world's arctic skuas
24. big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies
25. nest on the great hills of the island.’
26. ‘Beautiful weather
27. magnificent scenery and almost tame Arctic skuas make this a memorable excursion.’
28. ‘If you are visiting Ocean City
29. take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters
30. Wilson's storm-petrels
31. and Atlantic puffins.’
32. ‘Only a few runts
33. chicks whose parents had perhaps fallen prey to a toothy leopard seal
34. are left behind to feed the skuas.’
35. ‘Perhaps hobbies follow prey south to tropical Africa in the same manner that skuas follow terns.’
36. ‘The working theory is that tourists scare off the predatory skuas.’
37. ‘Set in Antarctica
38. it has no human characters but focuses on the natural environment of the frozen continent
39. especially penguins and skuas.’
40. ‘We had a week of short walks
41. drawing
42. filming and photography with snow petrels and gawky looking skua birds as our neighbours.’