EDITOE NOTE: Also known as the Arctic Skua. This is the brown phase. The more characteristic Parasitic Jaeger is the light phase, which is white on the bottom and face.
Holarctic low Arctic tundra, locally high Arctic and subarctic; w, s Greenland, Iceland, n Scotland, Scandinavian coasts including Baltic Sea, Svalbard (n of Norway), n Russia to ne Siberia and Kamchatka, Aleutian and Bering Sea is., w and sw Alaska, Arct
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
to high-productivity subtropical to tropical coastal waters of s continents: coastal w, s, ec Africa, Persian Gulf, e coast Arabian Sea (w India and Sri Lanka), n Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand, Peru, Chile and ec Argentina
Albania,Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Belarus,Benin,Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Chile,China, Colombia,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt, El Salvador,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Germany,Ghana, Gibraltar,Greece,Greenland,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Honduras,Hungary,Iceland,India - mainland, Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kuwait,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Lithuania,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malaysia,Mauritania, Mexico,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,New Zealand,Nicaragua, Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Peru,Poland,Portugal,Qatar, Romania,Russia,Saint Helena,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovenia,Somalia, South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tanzania, Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska, United States - mainland,Uruguay,Venezuela,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
