Skuas on the Eurasian tundra; relative occurrence of species, ages and colour phases

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Author: KJELLÉN, NILS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1997
• Subjects: Arctic; Kola Peninsula; Wrangel Island; Arctic skua; kola peninsula; Long-tailed Skua; Pomarine Skua; Stercorarius longicaudus; Stercorarius parasiticus; Stercorarius pomarinus; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1997.tb04626.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.1997.tb04626.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1997.tb04626.x

The breeding ranges of the three closely related skua species in the genus Stercorarius are highly sympatric on the Arctic tundra. During the Swedish‐Russian Tundra Ecology Expedition, 1994, the ages and colour phases of Pomarine Skuas Stercorarius pomarinus , Arctic Skuas Stercorarius parasiticus a...