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Stercorarius longicaudus

(Labbe ? longue queue)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Langstertroofmeeu

Common Names in Armenian:

[yerkarapoch Tzovahen Voror ]

Common Names in Basque:

Marikoi Isatsluze

Common Names in Breton:

Ar Sparfell-Vor Lostek

Common Names in Catalan:

Par

Common Names in Croatian:

Dugorepi Pomornik

Common Names in Czech:

Chaluha Mal

Common Names in Danish:

Almindelig Kjove, Lille Kjove

Common Names in Dutch:

Kleinste Jager

Common Names in English:

Arctic Jaeger, Buffon's jaeger, gull-teaser, Long-tailed Jaeger, Long-tailed Skua, Longtailed Skua, whip-tail

Common Names in Esperanto:

Longvosta Rabmevo

Common Names in Estonian:

Pikksaba-

Common Names in Faroese:

Kj

Common Names in Finnish:

Tunturikihu

Common Names in French:

Labbe ? longue queue, Labbe , labbe à longue queue, labbe à longue queue

Common Names in Galician:

Palleira Rabilonga

Common Names in German:

Falkenraubm, Falkenraubmöwe

Common Names in Greenlandic:

Papikkaaq

Common Names in Haitian Creole French:

Lab Ke Long

Common Names in Hebrew:

חמסן זנבתן

Common Names in Hungarian:

Ny

Common Names in Icelandic:

Fjallkj

Common Names in Inuktitut:

Ishungak

Common Names in Irish:

Meirleach Earrfhada

Common Names in Italian:

Labbo codalunga

Common Names in Japanese:

Shirohara-Toozoku-Kamome, Shiroharatouzokukamome, シロハラトウゾクカモメ

Common Names in Latin:

Stercorarius longicaudus

Common Names in Latvian:

Garastes Kaija

Common Names in Lithuanian:

Ilgauodegis Ple

Common Names in Maltese:

Ciefa Denbha Twil

Common Names in Manx:

Maarliagh Marrey Fammanagh

Common Names in Northern Sami:

Sk

Common Names in Norwegian:

Fjelljo

Common Names in Polish:

Wydrzyk Dlugoogonowy, Wydrzyk Dlugosterny

Common Names in Portuguese:

Bandido, Moleiro-De-Cauda-Comprida

Common Names in Portuguese (Brazil):

Bandido, Mandri

Common Names in Romansh:

Muetta Da La Cua Lunga

Common Names in Russian:

Dlinnokhvosty Pomornik, Поморник длиннохвостный

Common Names in Scots:

Fasgadair Stiureach

Common Names in Serbian:

Dugorepi Pomornik

Common Names in Slovak:

Pomorn

Common Names in Slovenian:

Dolgorepa Govnacka

Common Names in Spanish:

Gaviota Paras, Págalo rabero, Salteador cola larga

Common Names in Spanish (Argentine):

Salteador Chico

Common Names in Spanish (Chile):

Salteador Chico

Common Names in Spanish (Dominican Republic):

Pagalo Rabero

Common Names in Spanish (Honduras):

Gaviota Paras

Common Names in Spanish (Mexico):

Salteador Cola Larga

Common Names in Spanish (Uruguay):

Salteador Cola Larga

Common Names in Swahili:

Skua Mkia-Mrefu

Common Names in Swedish:

Fj, Fjällabb

Common Names in Turkish:

Uzun Kuyruklu Korsanmarti

Common Names in Valencian:

Par

Common Names in Welsh:

Sgiwen Lostfain

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Body: Shape : slim Size: small Wings : Shape: long and narrow.Adult Breeding Season : Head : Cap: blackish Color: sides yellowish Bill: dusky Neck: Collar : white, shading to gray posteriorly Body: Mantle: brownish-gray Shape: slim Size: small Underparts: white, shading to gray posteriorly Legs : Foot Color: black Leg Color: pale blue Wings: Flight Feathers: blackish Shape: long and narrow.Adult Winter: Head: Cap: feathers dusky , edged with pale gray Body: Breast: indistinct grayish band Mantle: feathers dusky, edged with pale gray Shape: slim Size: small Wings: Shape: long and narrow Tail: Crissum: barred with black and white Undertail Coverts: barred with black and white Uppertail Coverts: barred with black and white.Immature: Head: white Body: Breast: indistinct grayish band Mantle: sooty-brown, flecked or scaled with pale buff Shape: slim Size: small Wings: Shape: long and narrow Undersides: heavily bared with dusky and buff Tail: Crissum: barred with black and white Undertail Coverts: barred with black and white Uppertail Coverts: barred with black and white.

Color:

Adult light morph : Central tail feathers very elongated and pointed ; longer than tail · Black cap covers eye and crosses chin · Yellow area below cap · White nape · Gray upperparts · White underparts and dark undertail coverts · Blackish outer wing and secondaries and gray inner wing; not as much white on primaries as other jaegers · Small, black bill

Adult dark morph: Central tail feathers very elongated and pointed · Small, black bill · Entirely dark plumage except for base of primaries

Juvenile : Rounded central tail feathers project pretty far beyond rest of tail · Head , body, and wing linings barred-belly may be pale · As birds age, gray of adult plumage becomes more apparent and tail feathers lengthen · Upperparts often with pale edgings · Primaries dark with white shaft streaks on outer 2 primaries · Often dark intrusion into white primary patch from below · Axillaries and uppertail coverts strongly barred black and white

Subadult : Variable; gradually acquires adult plumage · Occurs in both dark and light color morphs · Best identified by tail feather shape, size, and bill shape

Size/Age/Growth

Length : 18 inches

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,427 meters (0 to 11,243 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is marine and highly pelagic, rarely occuring within sight of land except when breeding. It feeds mainly on lemmings during the summer but will also take shrews, many insects, berries and small birds when microtines are scarce. Its winter diet is largely unknown, but probably includes marine insects and fish with some scavenging and kleptoparasitism . Breeding begins in June with birds widely scattered over the Arctic and subarctic or montane tundra , up to 1300 m in Scandinavia. It is highly territorial1.

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List of Habitats :

Biology

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Diet

Mostly fish, with some birds, small mammals, eggs , and carrion .

Reproduction

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Jul-2007

Similar Species

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Young Long-tailed Jaegers look superficially like first-year Herring Gulls but have a more powerful, direct flight and white patches on the primaries visible from above and below the wing. Skuas are similar as well but are bulkier and thicker-necked, with much more prominent wing patches. Jaegers look most similar to each other. Adult Long-tailed can be safely identified when their very long, pointed central tail feathers are seen. The adult light morph Long-tailed lacks the breast band that Parasitic and Pomarines have, and has gray, not dark brown upperparts contrasting with dark secondaries. Juvenile and subadult jaegers are very difficult to tell apart. The Pomarine has a heavier bill and is larger than the other species and juveniles have very short rounded tail feathers. Juvenile Parasitics often have distinctive cinnamon tones to their plumage, pale primary tips or wavy uppertail coverts. Juvenile and subadult Long-tailed Jaegers often look grayer than the other species and can have longer tails. Juvenile Long-tailed Jaegers typically have black and white wavy uppertail covert bars and axillaries, long rounded central tail feathers, just two white primary shafts, and a dark intrusion into the white primary patch from below.

Members of the genus Stercorarius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. antarcticus (Brown Skua) · S. antarcticus antarcticus (Antarctic Skua) · S. antarcticus hamiltoni (Tristan Da Cunha Skua) · S. chilensis (Chilean Skua) · S. longicaudus (Long-Tailed Jaeger) · S. longicaudus longicaudus (Long-Tailed Jaeger) · S. longicaudus pallescens (Eastern Long-Tailed Jaeger) · S. lonnbergi (Brown Skua) · S. maccormicki (Antarctic Jaeger) · S. parasiticus (Richardsons Jaeger) · S. pomarinus (Pomatorhine Skua) · S. skua (Northern Skua) · S. skua skua (Great Skua) · S. sp. (Jaeger Sp.)

More Info

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 08, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 158.530 meters (520.112 feet), Standard Deviation = 583.140 based on 6,837 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  2. BirdLife International 2009. Stercorarius longicaudus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-16