Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world. Liz Bonnin presents brown skua hunting over an Antarctic landscape. These bulky brown birds with their ...

The number of Falkland Islands skua has declined by almost half in just five years, a survey of the bird's largest breeding ground reveals. It is unclear why the population has crashed on New Island, ...

Swooping towards the ground with its wings outstretched, this Skua was captured as it prepared to strike with deadly precision. The predatory bird was seen biding its time before it dived towards a ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Bird-watchers in Oklahoma say they experienced the treat of observing an antarctic seabird making a rare visit to the U.S. interior. A South Polar Skua spent nearly a ...

Avian flu affecting the remote St Kilda archipelago threatens to push a wild bird species to the brink of extinction, warn conservationists. Great skua - also known as bonxie - are described as ...

Skuas are notorious for snatching the eggs away from penguins for a meal. But as you might come to expect, the victim is never happy to learn that they’ve been burglarized, especially when the bounty ...

Territorial and foraging behavior of the South Polar Skua (Catharacta maccormicki) were studied in 1971-72 at the Cape Hallett Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) rookery. The skua population was at ...