Brown Skua

Brown Skua

Stercorarius antarcticus

<5% · Rare
overall probability at Table Mountain National Park

📅 Monthly Probability

<5
Jan
<5
Feb
<5
Mar
<5
Apr
<5
May
<5
Jun
<5
Jul
<5
Aug
<5
Sep
<5
Oct
<5
Nov
<5
Dec

☀️ When They're Spotted

Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)

☀️Diurnal
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Rakiura National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
<5%
2 Garden Route National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
<5%
3 Table Mountain National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
<5%
4 Fiordland National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
<5%
5 Tierra del Fuego National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina
Insufficient data
6 Addo Elephant National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
Insufficient data
7 Península Valdés 🇦🇷 Argentina
Insufficient data
8 iSimangaliso Wetland Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
Insufficient data
9 Great Otway National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
Insufficient data

Quick answers

What are the chances of seeing a Brown Skua in Table Mountain National Park?

About 1% of visitor-days record a Brown Skua sighting in Table Mountain National Park, based on 51 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.

When is the best time to see Brown Skua in Table Mountain National Park?

July has the highest sighting rate for Brown Skua in Table Mountain National Park in our monthly data.

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