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August 29, 2009. Taken with a Canon EOS 50D and an Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS USM Lens.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 50D
Aperture Value
f/4.5
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
-0.33 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
500 mm
ISO
200
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/2500 sec
Date/Time
Sat 29 Aug 2009 12:41:07 PM EDT
English Pomarine Jaeger
Scientific (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Stercorariidae
Family (English) Skuas
Other name(s) Labbe pomarin, Pomarine Skua
Breeding Regions NA, EU
Breeding Range Subregions n
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Algeria,Angola,Anguilla,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh, Belarus,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Cambodia,Cameroon, Canada,Cape Verde,Colombia,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Czech Republic,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic, Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,French Guiana, French Polynesia,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Greenland,Guatemala,Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq, Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kiribati,Kuwait,Latvia,Lebanon, Liberia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malaysia,Malta,Mauritania,Mexico,Micronesia, Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Nigeria,Norway,Oman, Pakistan,Palestine,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania, Russia,Saint Helena,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa, South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Sweden,Switzerland,Tanzania,Thailand, Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland, Uruguay,Venezuela,Vietnam,Virgin Islands,Western Sahara,Yemen,
IOC 11.2 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Temminck, 1815)
German Spatelraubmöwe
French Labbe pomarin
Chinese 中贼鸥
Japanese トウゾクカモメ
Russian Средний поморник
Spanish Págalo pomarino
Portuguese mandrião-pomarino / moleiro-do-árctico
Bird Data App text Largest Jaeger. Black cap extends below bill (Birds of Peru). There is also a dark brown morph.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF 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)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)