Skuas & Jaegers in North Yorkshire
Our list for North Yorkshire has 4 skuas & jaegers recorded regularly there: 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in North Yorkshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantCommon41–46 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaPassage migrantUncommon50–58 cmRegularly Jun–Oct
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantUncommon48–58 cmRegularly Aug–Sep
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantUncommon46–51 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