. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS—Order Longipennes SKUAS AND JJEGERS—Family HtercorarUdce SKUA 35. Meyalcstris skua. 22 inches. These hirge birds are the most powerful ana audacious]urates among the sea fowl of northern waters. Theirwhole form is indicative of strength; form robust, feetstrong, and bill large, powerful and hooked. Their])liunage is of a nearly uniform blackish-brown, withwliite shafts to the wing feathers and a white patch:il the base of the primaries. Nest.—They do not nest in large colonies, only a sin-i;li o
. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS—Order Longipennes SKUAS AND JJEGERS—Family HtercorarUdce SKUA 35. Meyalcstris skua. 22 inches. These hirge birds are the most powerful ana audacious]urates among the sea fowl of northern waters. Theirwhole form is indicative of strength; form robust, feetstrong, and bill large, powerful and hooked. Their])liunage is of a nearly uniform blackish-brown, withwliite shafts to the wing feathers and a white patch:il the base of the primaries. Nest.—They do not nest in large colonies, only a sin-i;li or a few pairs breeding in the same locality. Theirnests are hollows in the ground, a short distance backfiom the rocky shores. The two eggs that they lay areolive brown, spotted with blackish (). Range.—North Atlantic coasts, chiefly on the OldWorld side, breeding from the Shetland Islands and])ossibly C4reenland, northwards. They are only rarelyfound on our coasts even in winter, but have been takenas far south as New York. POMARINE JAEGER 36. Stercorariii
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