Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Skuas

CHARADRIIFORMES

Stercorariidae

Stercorarius pomarinus
Tundra, grassy coastal flats; pelagic in winter.
W Greenland; and n Russia incl. Novaya Zemlya and n Siberia from Taimyr Pen. to Chukotski Pen. and Anadyrland.
From w,n Alaska s to Hooper Bay, e across Canadian Arctic islands n
to Melville, Bathurst and Devon is., Baffin I., s to ne Mackenzie, Southampton I. and nw Quebec.
S. pomarinus and S. skua are probably conspecific.
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               -Stercorarius, latino stercus, stercoris (sterco)
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                                    -[Pirateria psicologica]
    convince altri uccelli marini a vomitare il cibo che viene ad essere
    creduto escremento... per poi impossessarsene.
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-pomarinus Gr.poma, pomatos (palpebra) + rhis, rhinos (naso)
        durante la cova sviluppa un fodero a copertura del naso-
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Stercorarius parasiticus
Coastal tundra; pelagic and coastal in winter.
From Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., n British Isles, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Bear I., Franz Josef Land and n Scandinavia e across n Russia, Novaya Zemlya and n Siberia to Chukotski Pen., and s to Commander Is., Kamchatka and Sea of Okhotsk. From w,n Alaska, nw Mackenzie and Banks, s Melville, Cornwallis, s Ellesmere and Baffin islands, s to Aleutians, Alaska Pen., Kodiak I., c Mackenzie, s Keewatin, ne Manitoba, Southampton I., n Ontario on Cape Henrietta Maria, n Quebec and n Labrador.
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- -parasiticus latino parasiticus o parasitus (parassita)
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Stercorarius longicaudus
Tundra, flats with sparse vegetation, moors; pelagic in winter.
From Greenland, Spitsbergen and n Scandinavia e across n Russia, Novaya Zemlya and n Siberia to Chukotski Pen., s to Kamchatka and
Sea of Okhotsk. W,n Alaska s to Hooper Bay, incl. St. Matthew, St. Lawrence and Nunivak islands, n Yukon, n Mackenzie, n Keewatin and through Canadian Arctic islands s to c interior mts. of Alaska, sw Yukon, s Keewatin, Southampton I. and n Quebec.
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--longicaudus latino longus (lungo) + caudatus (coda)
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Stercorarius pomarinus

Pomarine Skua

uncommon

has bred:-

Stercorarius parasiticus

Arctic Skua

common, local

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Stercorarius longicaudus

Long-tailed Skua

locally common

has bred: Jan Mayen

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[Chataracta]
Stercorarius skua
Rocky seacoasts, moors, sandy estuaries.
In Iceland, Spitsbergen, and Faroe, Shetland, Orkney and Bear islands. Ranges at sea in the n Atlantic s to n S. America, Mediterranean region
and nw Africa.
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-skua, sostantivo dal nome Faeroese skuvur

[Chataracta]
Stercorarius maccormicki
Rocky seacoasts, cliffs.
Seacoasts and mts. of Antarctica and the S. Shetland Is. Ranges at sea to Alaska, Greenland and the Indian Ocean.
On the South Shetland Is. the breeding areas of maccormicki and
lonnbergi overlap and ca. 10% of pairs are mixed or hybrids.
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