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Skua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Great Skua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blackburn Skua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wildlife of Antarctica - Birds, Skuas. Facts, characteristics, habits and habitat. ... Species: South Polar Skua ... The South Polar skua is recognized as the world's most southerly bird: sightings have occurred even at the South Pole.
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For the purpose of this web site I'll call this Brown Skua, but it might be referred to as Antarctic Skua by some. This individual was displaying at Cooper Bay, South Georgia, on 27 January 1999 . The photo was taken with a Canon EOS 1N & EF 70-200 F2.8L lens with fill flash mounted on a tripod.
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Pictures of 6 different species of Antarctic birds: skua, giant petrel, Cape petrel, Wilson petrel, snow petrel, fulmar. ... Left: skua (Catharacta maccormicki) bathing in a freshwater lake after returning from the sea, in order to remove the salt.
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Learn all you wanted to know about Arctic skuas with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic. ... Arctic Skua Profile...
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The SKUA project ... The SKUA project was a project, funded by JISC in 2008–2009 as part of the e-Infrastructure programme, to prototype a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services (in the form of RDF stores).
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The Skua is related to the Gull and the great Gull, but heavier built and far more aggressive. The scientific name is Stercorarius maccormicki. ... The Skua has an orange neck gradually getting darker towards the tail until it's black. The wings and beak are black.
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Skua space exploration ... In the original Skua version, 3 Chick boosters were used. The Bantam second stage burned for 30 seconds to boost the payload to 70 km. The payload deployed a radar-reflective parachute to allow winds aloft to be measured, and readings from a thermometer were radioed to the ground.
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