Long-tailed jaeger - Wikipedia
The long-tailed skua or long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
Long-tailed Jaeger - eBird
Learn more about Long-tailed Jaeger from… Slender gull-like seabird; the smallest of the three jaegers. Breeds on Arctic tundra; spends the rest of the year at sea. Difficult to separate from other jaegers, especially Parasitic. Breeding adults have an exceptionally long, pointed tail.
Long-tailed Jaeger - All About Birds
The slender, almost ternlike Long-tailed Jaeger is daintier than other jaegers, but no less ferocious in its approach to getting food. These birds catch lemmings and raid bird nests during summer on the Arctic tundra.
Long-tailed Jaeger Identification - All About Birds
Slender but powerful seabird with long, pointed wings, neat black cap, and relatively short, thick bill. Compared with other jaegers, the white flash in the wings is smaller and confined to 2-3 outermost primary feathers.
Long-tailed Jaeger | Audubon Field Guide
A swift-flying seabird, extremely graceful and agile in flight. When swimming, it floats buoyantly, and it takes flight from the water easily. Of the three jaeger species, the Long-tail is the smallest and the one that migrates farthest offshore; south of the Arctic, it …
Long-tailed Jaeger Life History - All About Birds
Long-tailed Jaegers are the most graceful and agile of the three jaeger species, although their flight is not as all-out fast as Parasitic Jaegers. They tend to have larger breeding territories than other jaegers, and they defend these against intruders using flight displays.
Long-tailed jaeger - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on ... - Animalia
Basic facts about Long-tailed jaeger: lifespan, distribution and habitat map, lifestyle and social behavior, mating habits, diet and nutrition, population size and status.
Long-tailed Jaeger - Stercorarius longicaudus - Birds of the World
2020年3月4日 · Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.lotjae.01
Long-tailed Jaeger Bird Facts (Stercorarius longicaudus)
The Long-tailed Jaeger is characterized by its sleek, gull-like body with long, pointed wings and an extremely elongated central tail feather. Adults display a pale gray body, white underparts, and a distinctive black cap contrasting with white cheeks.
Long-tailed Jaeger - BirdWeb
The Long-tailed Jaeger is the smallest jaeger, with a slender body and narrow wings. During the breeding season, the adult has long central tail feathers that extend 5-10" beyond the rest of the tail, but from August to November, these are often broken or missing.