Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
About the Great Skua
The great skua (Stercorarius skua), sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is roughly the size of a herring gull. It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken from other birds.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 57 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Norway in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusrecording
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusrecording
- South Polar SkuaStercorarius maccormickirecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.