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| Image Description: |
Great Skua attacking Great Black-backed Gull |
| Image notes: |
This is a fight to the death, the Bonxie later attempted to drown the gull. |
| Species in Image: |
Great Black-backed Gull, Great Skua |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00997 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Great Skua |
| Latin Name |
Stercorarius skua |
| Shetland Name |
Bonxie |
| Latin Group Name |
Charadriiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Stercorariidae |
| Common Family Name |
Skuas |
| Description |
Common breeding bird. Outside of the breeding season they range the Atlantic ocean for about seven months of the year. A long lived, hardy species, it is disliked by crofters & naturalists alike for the damage it does other to birds and to young lambs. |
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