Skuas & Jaegers in Portugal
Our list for Portugal has 4 skuas & jaegers recorded regularly there: 2 summer visitors, 1 winter visitor and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Portugal in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaWinter visitorUncommon50–58 cmRecorded all year
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusSummer visitorUncommon41–46 cmRecorded all year
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusSummer visitorRare46–51 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantRare48–58 cmRegularly May–Nov
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