Arctic skua

English

Arctic Skua

Noun

Arctic skua (plural Arctic skuas)

1. A seabird (Stercorarius parasiticus), of the skua family (Stercorariidae)

   Synonyms: man-of-war, man-of-war bird, parasitic jaeger

   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 90:

     There are fast soaring streamlined Arctic skuas with pointed double tail feathers extending behind them like the flights on a dart.

Translations

Stercorarius parasiticus

• Faroese: kjógvi m
• Finnish: merikihu (fi)
• Greenlandic: isunngaq
• Icelandic: kjói (is) m
• Irish: meirleach Artach m
• Lule Sami: suolaskájtti
• Northern Sami: suolaskáiti
• Norwegian: tyvjo c
• Portuguese: trinta-réis-ártico m
• Russian: короткохво́стый помо́рник m (korotkoxvóstyj pomórnik)
• Spanish: escúa ártica f, págalo ártico m
• Swedish: kustlabb (sv) c

References

• Arctic skua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stercorarius parasiticus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Stercorarius parasiticus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons