Skuas & Jaegers in Tyne and Wear
Our list for Tyne and Wear has 4 skuas & jaegers recorded regularly there: 2 summer visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Tyne and Wear in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusSummer visitorCommon41–46 cmRegularly May–Nov
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaSummer visitorUncommon50–58 cmRegularly May–Nov
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantUncommon48–58 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantUncommon46–51 cmRegularly Jul–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