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Pomarine Jaeger

Stercorarius pomarinus

4,520Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
55Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan89
Feb33
Mar26
Apr305
May720
Jun61
Jul146
Aug670
Sep1,019
Oct952
Nov416
Dec81

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England552
2Norfolk England400
3East Riding of Yorkshire England384
4Cornwall England357
5Dorset England121
6Suffolk England108
7Fife Scotland107
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland101
9Cambridgeshire England99
10Lincolnshire England93
11Pembrokeshire Wales91
12North Yorkshire England82
13Highland Scotland69
14East Lothian Scotland55
15Gwynedd Wales47
3,424 England757 Scotland160 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,520
Peak month
September
Counties with records
55
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Stercorarius pomarinus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
184
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Stercorariidae
Genus
Stercorarius
Name with authority
Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck, 1815)
Described
1815
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q212767 · GBIF 2481609