South Polar Skua: North Carolina Pelagic
The South Polar Skua, Stercorarius maccormicki, is the only polymorphic skua, it has a range of plumage from light to dark. Shown here is a dark plumaged bird like most found on the east coast of North America. It breeds in Antarctica and ranges widely throughout the oceans of the world.
It breeds on the Antarctic coast and can be very aggressive to human intruders around the nest.
It migrates throughout the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. In the northern Atlantic it is replaced by the Great Skua.
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