Editing Parasitic jaeger (section)

==Taxonomy==
The parasitic jaeger was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Larus parasiticus''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title=Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | pages=136–137 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727041 | access-date=2024-07-21 | archive-date=2023-04-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422142657/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727041 | url-status=live }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as "within the Tropic of Cancer of Europe, America and Asia" but this is now restricted to the Swedish coastline.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=311–312 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483124 | access-date=2024-07-21 | archive-date=2024-07-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721095727/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483124 | url-status=live }}</ref> The parasitic jaeger is now placed with the six other skuas in the genus ''[[Stercorarius]]'' that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]]. The species is considered to be [[monotypic]]: no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web | editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Noddies, gulls, terns, auks | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/gulls/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=21 July 2024 | archive-date=8 August 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808171159/https://www.worldbirdnames.org/BOW/gulls/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The genus name ''Stercorarius'' is [[Latin]] and means "of dung"; the food disgorged by other birds when pursued by skuas was once thought to be excrement. The specific ''parasiticus'' is from Latin and means "parasitic".<ref>{{cite book |last=Jobling |first=James A |url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling |title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |publisher=Christopher Helm |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n292/mode/1up 292], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n365/mode/1up 365]}}</ref> The word "jaeger" is the [[German language|German]] word ''Jäger'', meaning "hunter".<ref name="OEDjaeger">{{Cite OED|Jaeger}}</ref> The English "skua" comes from the [[Faroese language|Faroese]] name ''skúgvur'' {{IPA|fo|ˈskɪkvʊər|}} for the [[great skua]], with the island of [[Skúvoy]] known for its colony of that bird. The general Faroese term for skuas is ''kjógvi'' {{IPA|fo|ˈtʃɛkvə|}}.<ref name="OEDskua">{{Cite OED|Skua}}</ref>