Round about the deck lay dead and half-dead skua gulls in heaps.

The skua stared, and as he stared a great terror seized him.

Almost immediately the frozen carcase was mutilated and torn by skua gulls.

His special dish was penguins and skua gulls in cream sauce.

The skua remained as still as the bowlder he sat upon.

A skua is nesting on a rock between the ponies and the dogs.

Hundreds of snow petrels flew about and some stray skua gulls were seen.

As the tents were being pitched, a skua gull flew down.

Antarctica is the realm of albatross, elephant seals, penguins and predatory skua birds.

A dusky, nearly brown-forthey vary much in color-femaleskua came with him.

The skua was sitting motionless, with his head looking straight in front of him.

Stewed skua was the feature of our Christmas Eve supper.

Giant petrels and skua gulls swarmed in flocks round the seals' and penguins' carcases.

Probably he had thought that the skua was a gull, and a wounded one.

The latter turned and repeated their former tactics until the skua finally flapped away altogether.

But upon the fourth day the skua came back.