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  7. Long-tailed Jaeger

BirdUp · Species

Long-tailed Jaeger

Stercorarius longicaudusVieillot, 1819

Origin: Native
Order
CHARADRIIFORMES
Family
Stercorariidae
Genus
Stercorarius

At a glance

The Long-tailed Jaeger is a large bird, about 35–58 cm long, native to Australia. It can be seen year-round.

Size
35–58 cm
Origin
Native
Best seen
Year-round
Commonness
Common
  • Identification
  • Where
  • When
  • Behaviour

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

What does a Long-tailed Jaeger look like?

The Long-tailed Jaeger is a large bird, about 35–58 cm long and weighing 218–360 g.

The long-tailed jaeger or long-tailed skua is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Field specs

Length
35–58 cm
Weight
218–360 g

Measurements · avonet · CC BY 4.0

03 · When

When to look

When can you see a Long-tailed Jaeger?

The Long-tailed Jaeger is present across its Australian range year-round, so it can be seen in any month.

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05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

What does a Long-tailed Jaeger eat?

The Long-tailed Jaeger feeds on fish/invertebrates, usually foraging in pairs or flocks or alone.

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02 · Where

Where to find it

Where does the Long-tailed Jaeger live in Australia?

The Long-tailed Jaeger is native to Australia, recorded across 7 of Australia’s bioregions.

BreedingNA, PAL : Holarctic high and low Arctic tundra, locally subarctic: north-west and south-east Greenland, Arctic north Scandinavia to north-east Siberia and Kamchatka (east Russia); Arctic and west and south Alaska through Arctic Canada to Ellesmere and Baffin is.

Non-breedingHighly pelagic and southerly: to offshore subantarctic and subtropical waters off west, south-west and south-east Africa, south Madagascar, south Australia, Peru, Chile and east-central Argentina

Distribution from BirdUp Australia community data

Legend

  • Breeding
  • Passage
  • Vagrant

8 regions recorded