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Parasitic Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticus(Linnaeus, 1758)
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Stercorariidae
- Genus
- Stercorarius
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The parasitic jaeger or arctic jaeger, also known as the parasitic skua or arctic skua in Europe, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migratory species breeding in Northern Fennoscandia, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, and Siberia and wintering across the southern hemisphere. Kleptoparasitism is a major source of food for this species during migration and winter, and is where the name is derived from.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : Holarctic low Arctic tundra, locally high Arctic and subarctic: west and south Greenland, Iceland, north Scotland, Scandinavian coasts including Baltic Sea, Svalbard (north of Norway), north Russia to north-east Siberia and Kamchatka, Aleutian and Bering Sea is., west and south-west Alaska, Arctic Canada (except north high Arctic islands) to Baffin I. and east-central Canada
- Non-breeding range
- To high-productivity subtropical to tropical coastal waters of south continents: coastal west, south and east-central Africa, Persian Gulf, east coast Arabian Sea (west India and Sri Lanka), north Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand, Peru, Chile and east-central Argentina
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
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- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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