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title: "Middelste jager"
description: "Stercorarius pomarinus — Vogels. The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/pomarine-jaeger
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Middelste jager

> Stercorarius pomarinus — Vogels. The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.

- Scientific name: *Stercorarius pomarinus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 3695
- Wikidata: [Q212767](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212767)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4491](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4491)

## Names

- en: Pomarine Jaeger
- de: Spatelraubmöwe
- es: Salteador Robusto
- fr: Labbe pomarin
- nl: Middelste jager
- pt: Moleiro-pomarino
- pl: Wydrzyk tęposterny

## Countries with the most observations

US (762), CA (114), RU (68), MX (38), FR (35), IN (23), AU (22), DE (17), GB (16), SJ (13), TH (13), ES (12)

## Summary

The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomarine_jaeger

## Photo

![Middelste jager](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pomarine-jaeger/medium.jpg)

Photo: russnamitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/320875451

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pomarine-jaeger?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).