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Any feathered vertebrate.
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Great Skua
Animals; Birds
The Great Skua, Stercorarius skua, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The Great Skua breeds in Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and the Scottish islands, with a few on mainland ...
Long-tailed Skua
Animals; Birds
The Long-tailed Skua, Stercorarius longicaudus (known as the Long-tailed Jaeger in North America) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. This species breeds in the high Arctic of Eurasia and ...
Parasitic Skua
Animals; Birds
The Parasitic Jaeger, also known as the Arctic Skua or Parasitic Skua, (Stercorarius parasiticus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. This species breeds in the north of Eurasia and North ...
Pomarine Skua
Animals; Birds
The Pomarine Skua, Stercorarius pomarinus, known as Pomarine Jaeger in North America, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.
Spotted Thick-knee
Animals; Birds
The Spotted Thick-knee, Burhinus capensis, also known as the Spotted Dikkop or Cape Thick-knee, is a stone-curlew in the family Burhinidae.
Great Thick-knee
Animals; Birds
The Great Stone-curlew or Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka into South-east Asia.
Egyptian Plover
Animals; Birds
The Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. The Egyptian Plover is a localised resident in tropical sub-Saharan Africa.
