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Nests on Arctic tundra. Spends winters over open ocean, usually staying offshore, and very rarely found inland. | Nests on Arctic tundra. Spends winters over open ocean, usually staying offshore, and very rarely found inland. | ||
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Breeding is reliant upon the availability of lemmings and mice, its principal summer food. | Breeding is reliant upon the availability of lemmings and mice, its principal summer food. | ||
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Alternative name: Long-tailed Skua
- Stercorarius longicaudus
Identification
50-55cm (including tail projection of 12-20cm)
Adult
- Smallest and scarecest jaeger
- Gray upperparts
- White breast
- Gray belly
- Black cap (which covers eyes and chin and ends at yellow nape
- Upperwings are dark-edged
- Gray tail with black edges and long, black streamers
- Blue-gray legs with webbed feet
Sexes similar
Juvenile is heavily barred and spotted gray with white patches on underwings, white throat, white belly, and dark-tipped gray bill
Dark phase juvenile is darker overall, with gray throat, and without white belly.
Distribution
Breeds from Alaska to Greenland and south to the northern Ungava Peninsula.
Winters off the coasts of the southern U.S. and South America.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Nests on Arctic tundra. Spends winters over open ocean, usually staying offshore, and very rarely found inland.
Behaviour
Breeding
Breeding is reliant upon the availability of lemmings and mice, its principal summer food.
Vocalisation
<flashmp3>Stercorarius longicaudus (song).mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program
References
- What Bird
- museum.gov.ns.ca
- Collins Field Guide 5th Edition
