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No. 1
  Air piracy - skua
  There is a seagull in the Antarctic brown skua gulls call, listen to his name, will know it is probably not a good thing, some people call it air piracy, is extreme. Although it looks not very ugly, brown feathers clean, shiny black beak coarse, fiery eyes, round eyes, but the habit of robbery and theft, giving a sense of hate.
  Skua is the enemy of the penguin. In the penguin breeding season skuas often surprise attack on penguin habitat, food Diao penguin penguin eggs and young, leaving the bird egg fight, neighbors uneasy.
  Skua lazy, doing nothing, it never own their houses nest, but to take high-handed means to seize him Ukraine's nest, the birds disperse his family, and sometimes, even from his vicious birds, beasts of the mouth to snatch food. Once the fill belly to crouch motionless, biding his time.
  Lazy by nature of the skua, the choice of food is not very strict, no matter good or bad, as long as fill his belly on it. In addition to fish, shrimp and other marine life, the eggs, young birds, seals, body and feces of animals and birds are its meal. Expeditioners discarded food and garbage left can also be a good look at it delicious. In hunger, it even got into the research station's food banks, like a mouse, satiate, and before leaving and then pulled one.
  Even more appalling is that those who skua great scientific expedition to the trouble. In the field investigation, if not Caught off guard, portable picnic brought food, will be skua Diao go, in that case, one can only hope Ertan empty. When people unknowingly approached its nest, it will be desperate to hit, twitter flying overhead, or even dive to the people, but also arrested, but also a hundred, and sometimes head to pull people feces, great off inspection team, destroy - the potential scientific research station.
  Skua flying ability. May be due to the long line of Pirates of the exercise out of it, it is said, the Antarctic skua flying even the North Pole, where he lives.
  In the Antarctic winter, a small number of skuas in the Subantarctic islands south of the winter. Around Chinese Antarctic Great Wall Station is one of its winter there is snow everywhere, not only exposed during the summer months the little piece of land was covered with snow, and large tracts of ocean was frozen. At this time, skua life more difficult, there is no nest to live without food to eat, to fly far to lazy to stay near the research station, eating garbage to live on the station, known as duty cleaner.
  Skua (skua)
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No. 2
  Air piracy - skua
  Charadriiformes (Charadriiformes) skua Division (Stercorariidae) referred to several predatory seabirds. In the U.S., the term refers only to the British called skua great skua of Catharacta skua. In the UK, the term also refers to the skua 3 Americans call hunting gull (jaeger) of seabirds. Great skua body is about 60 cm (24 inches), the shape of gulls, but thicker heavy, light brown, with large white wing patches. Both are the only breed in the Arctic and Antarctic birds. Nest from Orkney (Orkney) Islands to Iceland and from South America to the top to less than 240 km away from the South Pole (150 miles) respectively. In addition to humans, the great skua is the point had come closest to the Antarctic creatures. Although the breeding population and occupy the areas from each other in different colors, but they seem to belong to the same species. In the north, skuas class only in the Atlantic (Scotland to Iceland) area breeding plumage is slightly rusty red. In the South there are several types of plumage, from white to light pink to dark brown. Winter, fly to the sea skua class; South who migrated to the north, crossing the equator in the Pacific on a regular basis, while those flying the north tropical. Skua agile and quick, will force other birds spit out food; nest in penguins, Yan Hu, terns and the like near the food stealing their eggs and chicks. In the north, skuas also eat lemmings, and as with the giant Hu, eat a lot of carrion.
  There is a seagull in the Antarctic brown skua gulls call, listen to his name, will know it is probably not a good thing, some people call it air piracy, is extreme. Although it looks not very ugly, brown feathers clean, shiny black beak coarse, fiery eyes, round eyes, but the habit of robbery and theft, giving a sense of hate.
  Skua is the enemy of the penguin. In the penguin breeding season skuas often surprise attack on penguin habitat, food Diao penguin penguin eggs and young, leaving the bird egg fight, neighbors uneasy.
  Skua lazy, doing nothing, it never own their houses nest, but to take high-handed means to seize him Ukraine's nest, the birds disperse his family, and sometimes, even from his vicious birds, beasts of the mouth to snatch food. Once the fill belly to crouch motionless, biding his time.
  Lazy by nature of the skua, the choice of food is not very strict, no matter good or bad, as long as fill his belly on it. In addition to fish, shrimp and other marine life, the eggs, young birds, seals, body and feces of animals and birds are its meal. Expeditioners remaining food and garbage disposal can also be a good look at it delicious. In hunger, it even got into the research station's food banks, like a mouse, satiate, and before leaving and then pulled one.
  Even more appalling is that those who skua great scientific expedition to the trouble. In the field investigation, if not Caught off guard, portable picnic brought food, will be skua Diao go, in that case, one can only hope Ertan empty. When people unknowingly approached its nest, it will be desperate to hit, twitter flying overhead, or even dive to the people, but also arrested, but also a hundred, and sometimes head to pull people feces, great off inspection team, destroy - the potential scientific research station.
  Skua flying ability. May be due to the long line of Pirates of the exercise out of it, it is said, the Antarctic skua flying even the North Pole, where he lives.
  In the Antarctic winter, a small number of skuas in the Subantarctic islands south of the winter. Around Chinese Antarctic Great Wall Station is one of its winter there is snow everywhere, not only exposed during the summer months the little piece of land was covered with snow, and large tracts of ocean was frozen. At this time, skua life more difficult, there is no nest to live without food to eat, to fly far to lazy to stay near the research station, eating garbage to live on the station, known as duty cleaner.
  Skua (Skua)
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English Expression
  1. n.:  jaeger,  skua
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StercorariidaeStercorariusStercorarius pomarinusStercorarius antarctica