- The
pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus),
pomarine skua, or
pomatorhine skua, is a
seabird in the skua
family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering...
- The
three smaller skuas, the
Arctic skua, the long-tailed skua, and the
pomarine skua, are
called jaegers in
North American English. The
English word "skua"...
- species, or that the
pomarine skua
evolved from
hybridization of the
great skua and one of the
small Arctic species (see
pomarine jaeger for details)....
- be used.
Distinguishing this skua from the
Northern Hemisphere Arctic,
pomarine, and long-tailed
skuas is
relatively straightforward. The
large size, m****ive...
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Identification is
complicated by
similarities to long-tailed
jaeger and
pomarine jaeger, and the
existence of
three colour morphs.
Small for a skua, the...
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maccormicki Least concern (A)
Brown skua
Catharacta antarctica Least concern Pomarine jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus Least concern Parasitic jaeger Stercorarius...
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competing predators for
lemmings are, in
addition to short-eared owls,
pomarine jaegers (Stercorarius pomarinus), long-tailed
jaegers (Stercorarius longicaudus)...
- red-necked phalaropes,
spotted redshanks, long-tailed jaegers,
Arctic jaegers,
pomarine jaegers, short-eared owls,
snowy owls, rough-legged buzzards, gyrfalcons...
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Great skua
Stercorarius skua
South polar skua
Stercorarius maccormicki (A)
Pomarine jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus Parasitic jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus...
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Stercorarius maccormicki (A)
Brown skua,
Stercorarius antarcticus (A)
Pomarine jaeger,
Stercorarius pomarinus (A)
Parasitic jaeger,
Stercorarius parasiticus...
