Skuas are large sea birds that have a talent for poaching eggs. Go along for the ride as a skua grabs what it thinks is a penguin egg, but is really a hidden ‘spy camera’. (skuas squawking ...

This means that a skua will wait until a gull, tern or other bird catches a fish, then chase after it and attack it, forcing it to eventually drop its catch so the skua can steal it.

The skua is known as a 'piratical' bird, as it gets much of its food by stealing from other seabirds. As well as baby penguins, the skua also preys on gulls and even puffins. ...

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 ...

But skua birds live thousands of miles away from any regular human settlements. This suggests that the skuas' behavior comes from sharp intelligence, rather than an advantageous wariness of people.

It’s also devastating news for the brown skua population, with recent research suggesting the predatory species, which feeds on other seabirds, has undergone a 47% decline in the last five years ...

A gannet's tussle with a great skua over the Moray Firth has been recorded in a series of photographs. The skua, a brown-coloured seabird also known as a bonxie and with a fearsome reputation for ...