"great" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A flock of snow buntings, a skein of brent geese, a flotilla of eiders, a great skua or a lone gannet makes it worth the waiting.
- It was a pair, in fact, doing a little late courting, and then, just to push the point home, a great skua floated into sight.
- So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony, not, that is, until one fearless great skua hit me.
- Basking sharks, seals and seabirds on the way, plus the chance of an aerial attack by a "bonxie" (great skua).
- The great skua has a surprising genetic similarity to the physically dissimilar pomarine skua, and most ornithologists now assume the great skua is a hybrid species between the pomarine skua and one of the northern skua species.
- Rounding the east side of the island the sea gets a little choppier in the tideway but we have a grandstand view of a gannet being robbed by a great skua.
- Smaller than the great skua but a little larger than the Arctic, the most obvious features of the pomarine are the two central tail-feathers which are considerably longer than the rest.
- During the summer, it is the pungent smell and incessant cries of seabirds - gannet, shag, Arctic skua, great skua, kittiwake, Arctic tern and puffins - nesting on the northern cliffs and hills - that dominate.
- The island's cliffs hold breeding colonies of many seabirds, including gannet, fulmar, storm petrel, Manx Shearwater, razorbill, great skua, Leach's Petrel and puffin.
- There will be kittiwakes and terns wheeling above your head and maybe the huge plunging shape of a bonxie - the great skua.
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