Skuas & Jaegers in Iceland
Our list for Iceland has 4 skuas & jaegers recorded regularly there: 3 summer visitors and 1 passage migrant
All 4, most common first
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusSummer visitorCommon41–46 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaSummer visitorCommon50–58 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantRare48–58 cmRegularly May–Aug
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusSummer visitorRare46–51 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
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