great skua

English

Noun

great skua (plural great skuas)

1. 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
• Galician: merdeiro 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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