Stercorarius
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
The skuas are a group of predatory and kleptoparasitic seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae. The three smaller skuas, the Arctic skua, the long-tailed skua, and the pomarine skua, are called jaegers in North American English.W CalCOFI holds 1,380 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R
- 1,380
- observations
- 1,380
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 4
- species under it
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 4 taxa
- sp Stercorarius pomarinus Pomarine Jaeger931
- sp Stercorarius parasiticus Parasitic Jaeger270
- sp Stercorarius longicaudus Long-Tailed Jaeger126
- sp Stercorarius maccormicki South Polar Skua53
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176791")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176791'").df()