Brown Skua

Brown Skua

Taxobox
name = Brown Skua
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Charadriiformes
familia = Stercorariidae
genus = "Catharacta"
species = "C. antarctica"
binomial = "Catharacta antarctica"
binomial_authority = Brooke, 1978

The Brown Skua ("Catharacta antarctica") is often referred to as Antarctic Skua (or vice versa); the taxonomy of Skuas is still a matter of dispute. Other names (probably owing to the high level of hybridization in this species) include Southern Great Skua, Southern Skua or Subantarctic Skua. The New Zealand Māori call it Hākoakoa. It breeds circumpolar in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic zones.


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