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Meanings of skua in anglès

rus
блэкберн скьюа
espanyol
skua
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Fighter-bomber aircraft family by Blackburn.

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        блэкберн скьюа
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        paràsit gros

        Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.

              paràsit gros
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              Usage of skua in anglès
              1
              Round about the deck lay dead and half-dead skua gulls in heaps.
              The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
              2
              The skua stared, and as he stared a great terror seized him.
              The Way of the Wild
              3
              Almost immediately the frozen carcase was mutilated and torn by skua gulls.
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              4
              His special dish was penguins and skua gulls in cream sauce.
              The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
              5
              The skua remained as still as the bowlder he sat upon.
              The Way of the Wild
              6
              A skua is nesting on a rock between the ponies and the dogs.
              Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
              7
              Hundreds of snow petrels flew about and some stray skua gulls were seen.
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              8
              As the tents were being pitched, a skua gull flew down.
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              9
              Antarctica is the realm of albatross, elephant seals, penguins and predatory skua birds.
              The Guardian
              10
              A dusky, nearly brown-forthey vary much in color-femaleskua came with him.
              The Way of the Wild
              11
              The skua was sitting motionless, with his head looking straight in front of him.
              The Way of the Wild
              12
              Stewed skua was the feature of our Christmas Eve supper.
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              13
              Giant petrels and skua gulls swarmed in flocks round the seals' and penguins' carcases.
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              14
              Probably he had thought that the skua was a gull, and a wounded one.
              The Way of the Wild
              15
              The latter turned and repeated their former tactics until the skua finally flapped away altogether.
              Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
              16
              But upon the fourth day the skua came back.
              The Way of the Wild
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