Great Skua
Stercorarius skua
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Stercorariidae
- Genus
- Stercorarius
- eBird Code
- gresku1
Distribution
breeds Iceland, Faroe Islands, Ireland, Scotland, Norway including Svalbard, and northwestern Russia to Novaya Zemlya; winters North Atlantic Ocean offshore waters to central Gulf Stream of New England to North Carolina, northeastern Brazil, North Sea to Iberian Peninsula, western Mediterranean, Macaronesia, and western Africa
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.