Tuesday, 15 December 2015

BioBrevia: The Furthest South a Bird Can Go

South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Illustration: Joseph Smit (Wikimedia Commons)

Here's an interesting meditation of sorts, from Frontiers in Ecology, on the only bird species that's ever been recorded at the South Pole: the aptly named and intrepid South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki).