Place: Hermaness, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 16 June 2018.
Having failed to frighten me away from its nesting area, this great skua has chosen instead to try and vent its aggression on a poor lamb and its mother.
[Stercorarius skua, Family Stercorariidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great skua]
The sound of the great skua (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Dougie Preston)
Distribution and sightings of the great skua across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 