Parasitic Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticus(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Parasitic Jaeger
The Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Stercorariidae (Jaegers and Skuas) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds mostly low Arctic tundra from Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland eastward to northeastern Siberia and Kamchatka, Aleutian and Bering Sea islands, through Alaska to east-central Arctic Canada (except northern high Arctic islands); winters to coastal waters of Africa, Persian Gulf, western India and Sri Lanka, eastward to Australasia, and Peru, Chile, and east-central ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Stercorarius parasiticus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Larus parasiticus
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Within the Tropic of Cancer of Europe, America and Asia; restricted type locality, coast of Sweden.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.136
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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