(n.) Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
Example Sentences:
(1) An investigation was carried out of the aerobic gram-negative intestinal flora of 158 penguins, 30 skuas, and 66 seals from the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic zones and Phillip Island.
(2) The data were obtained by exhaustive surveys of the Arctic Skua populations on the islands of Fair Isle and Foula.
(3) Trichophyton terrestre was isolated from a site in which people worked and through which penguins and skuas passed.
(4) From previously published demographic data of the age distributions and reproductive rates of the pale, intermediate and dark phenotypes of the Arctic Skua, revised estimates are obtained of the intrinsic rates of increase and selective coefficients of the phenotypes in each sex.
(5) Several migratory birds, including the Arctic tern and skua are thought to be the most likely culprits for delivering the viruses to Antarctica.
(6) Of particular interest was the isolation of a pathogenic fungus, Microsporum gypseum, from two sites in the base camp occupied by men and by skuas.
(7) These methods are applied to data of matings of the three phenotypes, pale, intermediated and dark of the Arctic Skua.