Great skua
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"Bonxie" redirects here. For the Stornoway album, see Bonxie (album).
This article is about the skua which breeds in the northeast Atlantic and winters in the north Atlantic. For the southern great skua, which is distributed in the Southern Ocean, see Brown skua.
The great skua (Stercorarius skua), sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is roughly the size of a herring gull. It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken from other birds.
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Great skua | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Stercorariidae |
Genus: | Stercorarius |
Species: | S. skua |
Binomial name | |
Stercorarius skua (Brünnich, 1764) | |
Synonyms | |
Catharacta skua |
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