Bird Sightings: Arctic Skua

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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Arctic Skua

Arctic Skua (also called: Parasitic Skua, Arctic Jaeger)

Stercorarius parasiticus

Photograph © Martin Scott
Brue - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
17th September, 2006

Other local bird photographs

Estimated 3,200 breeding pairs in the UK.
Arctic Skuas live up to 25 years.
We have three different plumage forms of the Arctic Skua: pale, medium and dark.
A pirate that will harrass another bird until it drops it's food.
Very distinctive tail - easiest identification feature.
Western Isles total in the Seabird 2000 survey book is 156 territories with some increase in numbers on the last 1980s surveys.

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