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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Stercorarius pomarinus

Pomarine Jaeger

WoRMS 137173ITIS 176792key itis:176792
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137173 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Stercorarius pomarinus
Pomarine Jaeger78 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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Photograph of Stercorarius pomarinus
Photo · Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The pomarine jaeger, pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.W CalCOFI holds 931 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

931
observations
931
records
931
sampling events
1987–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 931 obs · 931 events · 1987–2022
    name used: Stercorarius pomarinus Pomarine Jaeger · code POJA

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:176792%22