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Description: Article discussing the evolution and taxonomy of these New Zealand birds.
New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery | Brown skua, Catharacta or Stercorarius lonnbergi Although often getting a bad press from Antarctic visitors because they attack penguins, skuas are an extraordinarily interesting group for scientists, particularly those interested in behaviour and evolution. Currently of special interest to scientists is their origin and relationship to the gulls, their evolution into two or three rather different groups of species, the occurrence in at least one species of cooperative breeding, which is otherwise unknown among seabirds, and in at least one species the occurrence of siblicide, in which the older chick expels or kills the younger one.
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| Page title: | New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery | Brown skua, Catharacta or Stercorarius lonnbergi |
| Keywords: | New Zealand bird, Brown skua, Catharacta or Stercorarius lonnbergi, birding, birdwatching, Karoro, Maori culture, taxonomy, description, illustration, photograph |
| Description: | New Zealand bird, Brown skua, Catharacta or Stercorarius lonnbergi found in New Zealand Birds' bird gallery section, includes general information about the bird, taxonomy, description, where to find them and other useful and interesting information. The bird gallery links to in-depth descriptions of most New Zealand birds. |
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