For other uses: see Skua . and a giant petrel are fighting over a dead Antarctic fur seal]]The skuas are seabirds in the family Stercorariidae. The three smaller skuas are called jaegers in North America. The name skua comes from Faroese skúgvur [1] (Stercorarius skua), and the island of Skúvoy is renowned for its colony of that bird. Jaeger is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning hunter. Skuas nest on the ground in temperate and Arctic regions and are long-distance migrants. Outside the breeding season they take fish, offal and carrion. Many are partial kleptoparasites, chasing gulls, terns and other seabirds to steal their catches; the larger species also regularly kill and eat adult birds, up to the size of Great Black-backed Gulls. On the breeding grounds they common

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