David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
___________________________________________________________________________________Birds 185 – Arctic Skuas or Parasitic Jaegers
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
ARCTIC SKUA OR PARASITIC JAEGER Stercoraria parasitica
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Although it is accurately descriptive, the photographer doesn’t find the
BOU vernacular name of the Parasitic Jaeger Stercoraria parasitica to be a particularly attractive alternative to Arctic
Skua for such an elegant, and aerobatic bird – but then he isn’t viewing its
piratical behaviour from the perspective of a bullied tern when it is being
robbed of a meal! A recent development in response to a collapsing population
of Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea has been a switch towards
robbing auk species of their catches instead! The first picture illustrates a
pale morph bird. The photographs were all taken during two Shetland Wildlife
holidays.
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