Basic Description. The slender, almost ternlike Long-tailed Jaeger is daintier than other jaegers, but no less ferocious in its approach to getting food.

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 ...

The long-tailed skua or long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.

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 ...

The slender, almost ternlike Long-tailed Jaeger is daintier than other jaegers, but no less ferocious in its approach to getting food.

A swift-flying seabird, extremely graceful and agile in flight. When swimming, it floats buoyantly, and it takes flight from the water easily.

Long-tailed jaegers are the smallest of the g.Stercorarius species. They can weigh anywhere from 280 to 310 g at adulthood with females generally on the ...

The Long-tailed Jaeger is the smallest and most graceful in flight. Transequatorial migration allows this species to forage in regions with high productivity.

The Long-tailed Jaeger breeds on the Arctic tundra of Alaska and Canada; breeding distribution is closely tied to lemming populations (Wiley and Lee 1998).

This species breeds in the high Arctic of Eurasia and North America, with major populations in Russia, Alaska and Canada and smaller populations around the rest ...