Stercorarius parasiticus, Print, The parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), also known as the Arctic skua, Arctic jaeger or parasitic skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The word jaeger is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning hunter. The English skua comes from the Faroese name skúgvur for the great skua, with the island of Skúvoy known for its colony of that bird. The general Faroese term for skuas is kjógvi. The genus name Stercorarius is Latin and means of dung, the food disgorged by other birds when pursued by skuas was once thought to be excrement. The speci

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