Skuas & Jaegers in France
Our list for France has 4 skuas & jaegers recorded regularly there: 1 winter visitor and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in France in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantUncommon41–46 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaWinter visitorUncommon50–58 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantRare46–51 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantRare48–58 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
Smallest to largest
Length, cmBody length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made