smaller skuas, the Arctic skua, the long-tailed skua, and the pomarine skua, are called jaegers in North American English. The English word "skua" comes...
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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...
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The Blackburn B-24 Skua was a carrier-based low-wing, two-seater, single-radial engine aircraft by the British aviation company Blackburn Aircraft. It...
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The brown skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as the Antarctic skua, subantarctic skua, southern great skua, southern skua, or hākoakoa (Māori)...
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Look up skua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skua is a seabird in the family Stercorariidae. Skua may also refer to: Blackburn Skua, a British dive-bomber/fighter...
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south polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer...
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Parasitic jaeger (redirect from Arctic skua)
parasitic jaeger (North America) or Arctic skua (Europe) (Stercorarius parasiticus), is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migratory species...
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Pomarine jaeger (redirect from Pom Skua)
pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering...
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Colonel Luis Arturo Rodríguez Meneses Air Base (redirect from SKUA)
Base (Spanish: Base Aérea Coronel Luis Arturo Rodríguez Meneses) (ICAO: SKUA) is a Colombian military base assigned to the Colombian Aerospace Force (Fuerza...
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Skua is the designation of a British sounding rocket which was launched between 1959 and 1981 in four versions over 300 times. The Skua was developed...
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The Sea Skua is a British lightweight short-range air-to-surface missile (ASM) designed for use from helicopters against ships. It was primarily used by...
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Long-tailed jaeger (redirect from Long-tailed skua)
The long-tailed skua or long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The word "jaeger" is derived from...
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go in a different musical direction and formed a heavy metal band called Skua before Simon Fuller chose him to be in S Club 7. Cattermole became a member...
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The Denel Dynamics Skua is a turbojet-engined target drone used to simulate fast-moving attack aircraft during surface-to-air and air-to-air training exercises...
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Skua Terrace (60°41′S 45°38′W / 60.683°S 45.633°W / -60.683; -45.633) is a terrace in the northwest part of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, extending...
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Skua Beach (53°5′S 73°41′E / 53.083°S 73.683°E / -53.083; 73.683) is a sandy beach lying at the base of Scarlet Hill on the east side of Heard Island...
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The Chilean skua, also called the cinnamon skua (Stercorarius chilensis), is a large predatory seabird, which breeds in Argentina and Chile, but ranges...
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30/35 and was derived from the Blackburn Skua dive-bomber/fighter and developed in parallel to it. Unlike the Skua, the Roc had its armament in a turret...
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Skua Island (54°1′S 37°15′W / 54.017°S 37.250°W / -54.017; -37.250) is an island immediately northeast of Prion Island in the entrance to the Bay of...
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Skua Island (65°15′S 64°16′W / 65.250°S 64.267°W / -65.250; -64.267 (Skua Island)) is a roughly triangular island 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km; 0.81 mi)...
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Marsh Glacier (redirect from Skua Glacier)
the northern party of the NZGSAE (1961-62) and so named because of the skuas seen at its lower part in December 1961. Tributary glaciers entering from...
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He 111 bomber (1H+CT) is pursued near Grotli by a Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua (L2940) fighter. Three of the four German crew survive the crash: pilot Leutnant...
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Cape Evans (redirect from Skua Lake)
nearby skua rookery. 77°38′S 166°25′E / 77.633°S 166.417°E / -77.633; 166.417. A small, roughly circular meltwater lake about midway between Skua Lake...
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War II in service at the beginning alongside the Blackburn Skua. Blackburn Skua The Skua was a fighter and a dive bomber; one of two fighter aircraft...
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List of birds of Antarctica (section Skuas and jaegers)
are long-distance migrants. Chilean skua, Stercorarius chilensis South polar skua, Stercorarius maccormicki Brown skua, Stercorarius antarctica Pomarine...
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Streaker target drone, probably incorporating elements from the South African Skua, with hardpoints added for munitions. The Karrar was developed during the...
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Furness, R. W. (1978). "Kleptoparasitism by great skuas (Catharacta skua Brünn.) and Arctic skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus L.) at a Shetland seabird...
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(also Rügener goose, Pommerngans) Pomarine skua, carnivorous seabird sometimes erroneously called "Pomeranian skua" Western Pomerania and Farther Pomerania...
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most talented of her age. One day, Mumble encounters a group of hostile skua, with a leader who is tagged with a yellow band, which he says is from an...
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