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Stercorarius longicaudus

Vieillot, 1819

Long-tailed Jaeger

G5Secure Found in 5 roadless areas NatureServe Explorer →

G5SecureGlobal Rank

Least concernIUCN

Identity

Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.100027

Element CodeABNNM01030

Record TypeSPECIES

ClassificationSpecies

Classification StatusStandard

Name CategoryVertebrate Animal

IUCNLeast concern

Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations

KingdomAnimalia

PhylumCraniata

ClassAves

OrderCharadriiformes

FamilyStercorariidae

GenusStercorarius

Other Common Names

Labbe à longue queue (FR) Mindrião-de-Cauda-Comprida, Rabo-de-Junco-Preto (PT) Salteador Cola Larga (ES)

Concept Reference

American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in The Auk]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.

Conservation Status

Rank MethodExpertise without calculation

Review Date2016-04-10

Change Date1996-11-26

Range Extent Comments

Circumpolar. BREEDS: in arctic of Alaska, Canada and Greenland; in Old World from Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, northern Eurasia. NONBREEDING: at sea in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, more commonly in cold southern localities (Godfrey 1966) such as off Argentina and Chile.

Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

Nonbreeding: pelagic, casually along seacoasts and on inland waters (AOU 1983). Nests in open or alpine tundra, flats with sparse vegetation, and moorlands (AOU 1983). Most often in well-drained upland areas, also in dry tundra in low-lying areas; nest usually on mound or hummock (Johnson and Herter 1989). Nests on the ground in a depression, into which it may scrape small amounts of grass, leaves or moss. May nest among rocks.

Ecology

Pairs defend large territories, but often hunt over an area larger than the territory; in northern Sweden, hunted up to 2.7 kilometers from nuest, usually less than 700 meters (Andersson 1971).

Reproduction

Eggs are laid mainly mid- to late June. Both adults, in turn, incubate 2, sometimes 1-3, eggs for 23-25 days. Hatching was recorded in second week of July on Ellesmere Island. Young are tended by both parents, fledge in 22-28 days, attended by adults for 10-21 days after fledging. Second-hatched chick in most broods usually does not survive (Johnson and Herter 1989).

Terrestrial Habitats

AlpineTundra

Other Nations (2)

CanadaN5B

Province	Rank	Native
British Columbia	S4M	Yes
Northwest Territories	S5	Yes
Nova Scotia	SNA	Yes
Manitoba	S1B	Yes
Quebec	S3B	Yes
Yukon Territory	S3B	Yes
Nunavut	S5B	Yes
Ontario	S1M	Yes

United StatesN5B

Province	Rank	Native
Alaska	S5B	Yes
Florida	SNA	Yes
Massachusetts	S1N	Yes
Delaware	S2M	Yes
California	SNA	Yes
New York	SNRN	Yes
Oregon	SNA	Yes
Maine	SNA	Yes
Vermont	SNA	Yes
Washington	SNA	Yes
Maryland	SNA	Yes
Michigan	SNRN	Yes
Virginia	SNA	Yes
North Carolina	SNA	Yes
New Jersey	SUM	Yes

Threat Assessments

Threat	Scope	Severity	Timing
11 - Climate change & severe weather	Pervasive (71-100%)	Unknown	Low (long-term)
11.1 - Habitat shifting & alteration	Pervasive (71-100%)	Unknown	Low (long-term)

Roadless Areas (5)

Alaska (3)

Area	Forest	Acres
Chilkat-West Lynn Canal	Tongass National Forest	199,772
Nellie Juan	Chugach National Forest	713,697
Windham-Port Houghton	Tongass National Forest	161,952

California (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Glass Mountain	Inyo National Forest	52,867

Idaho (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Needles	Payette National Forest	131,279

References (24)

American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1983. Check-list of North American Birds, 6th edition. Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas. 877 pp.
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in The Auk]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
Andersson, M. 1971. Breeding behaviour of the Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus (Vieillot). Ornis Scandinavica 2:35-54.
BirdLife International. 2004b. Threatened birds of the world 2004. CD ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
Evans, P. G. H. 1984a. The seabirds of Greenland: their status and conservation. Pages 49-84 in Croxall et al., eds. Status and conservation of the world's seabirds. ICBP Tech. Pub. No. 2.
Evans, P. G. H. 1984b. Status and conservation of seabirds in northwest Europe (excluding Norways and the USSR). Pages 293-321 in Croxall et al., eds. Status and conservation of the world's seabirds. ICBP Tech. Pub. No. 2.
Furness, R. W. 1987. The skuas. T & A D Poyser Ltd., Calton, England. 336 pp.
Furness, R. W. 1996. Family Stercoriidae (Skuas). Pages 556-571 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (Eds.) Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 3. Lynx Editions, Barcelona, Spain.
Godfrey, W.E. 1966. The birds of Canada. National Museums of Canada. Ottawa. 428 pp.
Harrison, P. 1983. Seabirds: an identification guide. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. 448 p. plus color plates.
Howell, S. N. G., and S. Webb. 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Jaramillo, A. 2003. Birds of Chile. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
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Maher, W. J. 1974. Ecology of pomarine, parasitic, and long-tailed jaegers in northern Alaska. Cooper Ornithol. Soc. 148 pp.
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National Geographic Society (NGS). 1983. Field guide to the birds of North America. National Geographic Society, Washington, DC.
Parker III, T. A., D. F. Stotz, and J. W. Fitzpatrick. 1996. Ecological and distributional databases for neotropical birds. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Pratt, H. D., P. L. Bruner, and D. G. Berrett. 1987. A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 409 pp. + 45 plates.
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Ridgely, R. S. 2002. Distribution maps of South American birds. Unpublished.
Sibley, D. A. 2000a. The Sibley guide to birds. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
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