juancar dieguez
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In bizkaia, north of spain , today
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Stercorarius?? Spain (1 Viewer)
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Nutcracker
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Yes, Stercorarius; probably S. skua, though not sure how one would exclude some of the southern hemisphere species. In moult, with feather loss exposing white feather bases that are normally hidden.
Andy Adcock
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S Skua?
Nutcracker
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Andy Adcock
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I thought you were suggesting Southern.
Nutcracker
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Nope! Though some of them (notably S. antarctica [Brown Skua]) were lumped in S. skua as subspecies in some older texts.
Nutcracker
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As an aside, what do you think of this one (at wiki commons) found dead on a Moroccan beach, please?
Andy Adcock
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Why suspicious, you can't see anything from this?
CARERY
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Suspicious is mainly the greyish brown base colour. Only juvenile Great Skua would be as plain at the underside but much darker and warmer brown. Still, it could be bleached or the colour of the photo misleading... also late December would be a strange date for SP Skua I suppose.
rollingthunder
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I still use Bonxie:t:
I saw several of them in December flying thru/around Dhakla i must admit i didn’t give a thought to grilling them they just looked liked Bonxies...
Laurie -
I saw several of them in December flying thru/around Dhakla i must admit i didn’t give a thought to grilling them they just looked liked Bonxies...
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Nutcracker
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Thanks! Judging by geotagged birds, it seems South Polar Skua must be very much overlooked in Moroccan waters - see Fig. 1a here :t:
Richard Prior
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Interesting study, thanks for posting the link Nutty.
Looks as though Lou (Rolling Thunder, not Salomon!) should have done a bit of grilling of his Dhakla ‘Bonxies’ after all :eek!:
Looks as though Lou (Rolling Thunder, not Salomon!) should have done a bit of grilling of his Dhakla ‘Bonxies’ after all :eek!:
Simon Wates
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Nice one Nutty, but now I have to swot up again on these Skuas to be ready for seawatching here in the Algarve 
....hand on forehead, reaching for panadol! :-O
....hand on forehead, reaching for panadol! :-O
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Nice one Nutty, but now I have to swot up again on these Skuas to be ready for seawatching here in the Algarve
panadol? I thought that was one of the Blue Rock Thrush subspecies
(fetching my coat already.........)
Simon Wates
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Simon Wates
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On a serious note though, my seawatching from Cabo de São Vicente would mean no photos probably - the thought of getting a South Polar go by and then gone in the scope and having the balls to tell anyone for fear of being a madman is a worrying reality!
Simon Wates
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True, well I'm not really so worried - most of the hardened marine bird folk here have SPS on their radar; though I think nowadays, for acceptance, a photo is necessary.
