BirdUp · Species
Long-tailed Jaeger
Stercorarius longicaudusVieillot, 1819
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Stercorariidae
- Genus
- Stercorarius
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The long-tailed jaeger or long-tailed skua is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, 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-breeding range
- Highly 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
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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