Species Detail - Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Stercorarius parasiticus
Arctic Skua
NBNSYS0000000341 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
stpar
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
383
104
200
07/04/1980
24/07/2008
26 March (recorded in 2001)
11 December (recorded in 1990)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/10153>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)