Pomarine Jaeger
Stercorarius pomarinus
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Jaegers and Skuas (Stercorariidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds high Arctic tundra, mainly northwestern to northeastern Russia (including many high Arctic islands), northern and southwestern Alaska, eastward through Arctic Canada to Baffin Island (northeastern Canada); winters to temperate to tropical coasts and offshore waters worldwide.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Estonia
- Fiji
- Finland
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Pomarine jaeger
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
