#0909 · 🐦 birds
Pomarine Jaeger
🇳🇱 Middelste Jager ·Stercorarius pomarinus
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what is it?
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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,776 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 740 g.
- Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1815 (211 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Nederlands
- Middelste Jager
- scientific name
- Stercorarius pomarinus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Stercorariidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 170
- sightings worldwide
- 3,776
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,647
- weight
- 740 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1815 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Stercorariidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4491, Wikidata Q212767, GBIF 2481609, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.