Territorial and foraging behavior of the South Polar Skua (Catharacta maccormicki) were studied in 1971-72 at the Cape Hallett Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) rookery. The skua population was at ...

Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology, Vol. 34, No. 4 (December 2011), pp. 495-498 (4 pages) The food provided to South Polar Skuas (Stercorarius maccormicki) chicks was ...

The arrival of the new year is a prime time for Antarctic birds like the south polar skua, Antarctic petrel, and snow petrel to build nests and lay their eggs. However, from December 2021 to January ...

I've never been to Antarctica, and it's not high on my list of "must see" destinations. Ocean voyages and extreme cold are simply not my cup of tea. So, when Joshua Spence reported in early June that ...

You see them with their mounted cameras and binoculars, sitting quietly on headlands, gazing out to sea and appearing endlessly patient. Our top, sea-watching sites for the autumn bird passage are ...

migrant, coming to the Antarctic coast in summer for breeding. It spends its winter over the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It is a large bird, usually 50 cm in size with a wingspan of up to ...

Mercury contamination in the Antarctic and Subantarctic affects bird populations, reveal researchers. The scientists monitored skuas in Adélie Land and the Kerguelen Islands for ten years and showed ...

December and January represent breeding season for seabirds in Antarctica, a time when there should be thousands of active nests. But strong snowstorms during the 2021-2022 season made it difficult ...