great skua

English

Noun

great skua (plural great skuas)

A large seabird, Stercorarius skua.
- 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 85:
  There are great skuas here, nesting up on the higher ground, and I have seen them cruising above the gull colony further up the coast.

Synonyms

bonxie (British, chiefly Shetland)

Translations

Stercorarius skua

Asturian: cágalu (ast), fernandón (ast)
Bulgarian: скуа f (skua)
Carpathian Rusyn: скуа f (skua)
Catalan: paràsit gros m
Czech: chaluha velká
Dutch: grote jager (nl) m
Estonian: suuränn
Faroese: skúgvur (fo) m
Finnish: isokihu (fi)
French: grand labbe (fr) m, skua (fr) m
German: Große Raubmöwe f
Greenlandic: isunngarujussuaq
Icelandic: skúmur (is) m
Lule Sami: stuorskájtti
Navajo: łóóʼyiniʼįįhí ntsaaígíí
Northern Sami: stuorraskáiti
Norwegian: storjo c
Old Norse: skúfr m
Polish: wydrzyk wielki m
Portuguese: alcaide (pt) m
Russian: большо́й помо́рник m (bolʹšój pomórnik)
Spanish: págalo grande m, skúa m
Swedish: storlabb (sv) c
Welsh: gwylan frech f

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