#0856 · 🐦 birds

Great Skua

🇳🇱 Grote Jager ·Stercorarius skua

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Janne Asp · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Ulrich Latzenhofer · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Pedro Valenzuela · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nick Leggatt · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © docprt · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © David Cook Wildlife Photography · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Fyn Kynd · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © whinaem · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © swoopnl · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The great skua ( Stercorarius skua ) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The English name and species name "skua" is believed to originate from the Faroese skúvur or skúgvur and is the only known bird name to originate from the Faroes that has come into regular use elsewhere. In Britain, it is sometimes known by the name bonxie , a Shetland name of Norse origin.

base stats

NL sightings 10iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,332iNaturalist observations
weight 1.9 kgadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).