Species profile
South Polar Skua
Stercorarius maccormicki
Quick answer
Occasional Migrant. Rodrigues et al. (2010)
- Scientific name
- Stercorarius maccormicki
- Family
- Stercorariidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Stercorarius
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated
Recording South Polar Skua in your journal
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Related species in Stercorariidae
- Chilean skua (Stercorarius chilensis)
- Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
- Long-tailed Skua, Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
- Parasitic/long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
- Pomerine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus)
- Southern Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus)
- Stercorarius shufeldti (Stercorarius shufeldti)