NPSpecies

Recorded for Mount Desert Island (Jones 1986) but no records within park boundaries on MDI to date.

Native to Maine, but no records of this species in inner waters (Palmer 1949).

Witt (1997) very rare in summer, occasional in fall.

Park Species Detail: Checklist information (abundance, nativity) updated 4/9/03 by professional judgement of Bruce Connery, ACAD wildlife biologist. Jones (1986) (from handwriten note on manuscript): lists one specimen record from Pretty Marsh and notes that "This specimen presumably was identified prior to the realization that South-Polar Skuas were regular in the North Atlantic; the specimen will have to be re-examined for correct identification". Favour (1974) lists a specimen record of a "skua" from Pretty Marsh.