Some food items of the South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki at inland sites in the Ahlmannryggen, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

Marine Ornithology 40: 63–66 (2012) Among breeding Antarctic species of birds, the diet of the South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki (following Christidis & Boles 2008) is comparatively well studied. Higgins & Davies (1996) have summarised published information on the bird’s diet up to 1994, and a number of studies of the diet or notes on the feeding ecology of this species have appeared subsequently (Mund & Miller 1995, Reinhardt 1997,...