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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Songkhran" data-source="post: 1274781" data-attributes="member: 96691">so Olsen said that he thought it was a fairly typical Long-tailed, but didn't go into detail, also the observers themselves pretty confident on Arctic and perhaps the photo is strongly suggestive of LT when in relaity it looked pretty Arctic like! from what i can see this bird has strong features of Arctic and Long-tailed, the debate seemed split between the two with noone going for Pom.  I know this is sticky ground but there always seems to be alot of debate regarding hybridisation amongst Great/Chilean/Falkland Skua but none for Stercorarius (as far as i can see not mentioned in Olsen /Larrson) have there every been any known examples for this genus?I think this bird is reinforcing the important lesson to remember when out seawatching - not all Skuas can be specifically IDed to a particular species</blockquote>