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Great Skua (Catharacta skua), Toolie, Hermaness geograph.org.uk 5785847🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesStercorariidae
Birds

🐦Great Skua

Stercorarius skua (Brünnich, 1764)

חמסן גדול (שם מדעי: Stercorarius skua) הוא עוף ימי גדול ממשפחת החמסניים שבסדרת החופמאים.

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≈ 1/46th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.34 kg
Body length
0.66 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
36 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Skua

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.34 kgrecord 1.42 kg · SeaLifeBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

By sex

  • Female1.94 kgWikidataQ207760
  • Male1.74 kgWikidataQ207760
Body length
0.66 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
36 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
1.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great Skua yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyStercorariidae
  6. ›genusStercorarius
  7. ›speciesStercorarius skua
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyStercorariidae
  4. genusStercorarius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyStercorariidae
  11. genusStercorarius
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storlabb (sv), Große Raubmöwe (de), paràsit gros (ca), chaluha velká (cs), Storkjove (da), Catharacta skua (es) … and 25 more languages
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