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Pomarine Skua light phase

Pomarine Skua light phase - Adult

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» December, 1985

Equipment

» Praktica MTL5 with 50 mm lens

Bird Species

»Stercorarius pomarinus - Pomarine Jaeger

Bird Species (French)

»Labbe pomarin

Bird Family

»Stercorariidae - Skuas

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Bird captured with some injures. It seems more common in the sea around the Canary Islands than initially inferred, mainly in autumn, but also in spring and even in winter.

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