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Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger; Arctic Jaeger)

Synonyms: Larus parasiticus (homotypic); Lestris richardsonii; Stercorarius crepidatus
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), also known as the Arctic skua or parasitic skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The word "jaeger" is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning "hunter". The English "skua" comes from the Faroese name skúgvur [ˈskɪkvʊər] for the great skua, with the island of Skúvoy known for its colony of that bird. The general Faroese term for skuas is kjógvi [ˈtʃɛkvə]. The genus name Stercorarius is Latin and means "of dung"; the food disgorged by other birds when pursued by skuas was once thought to be excrement. The specific parasiticus is from Latin and means "parasitic".
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.34166
EDGE Score: 2.12126
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  2
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Fledging [6]  28 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  3,500,000
Incubation [4]  26 days
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  31 years
Migration [1]  Intercontinental
Speed [9]  30.87 MPH (13.8 m/s)
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Coastal
Wing Span [9]  3.477 feet (1.06 m)
Adult Weight [2]  436 grams
Birth Weight [4]  29 grams
Female Weight [7]  1.054 lbs (478 g)
Male Weight [7]  413 grams
Weight Dimorphism [7]  15.7 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Arctic tundra
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread Oceans
Wintering Habitat [3]  Pelagic, Coastal marine
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore
Diet - Endothermic [5]  30 %
Diet - Fish [5]  30 %
Diet - Fruit [5]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  20 %
Forages - Ground [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  3 years 3 months
Male Maturity [4]  3 years 3 months

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Predators

Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger)[10]

Consumers

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 7Belopol'skii L.O. 1957. Ecology of sea colony birds of the Barents Sea. Izdat. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Moscow-Leningrad.
♦ 8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 9Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 11Predator–prey relationships: arctic foxes and lemmings, Anders Angerbjorn, Magnus Tannerfeldt and Sam Erlinge, Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 34-49
♦ 12The role of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the foodweb of the Barents Sea, A. V. Dolgov, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 59: 1034–1045. 2002
♦ 13Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0