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Stercorarius longicaudus (Long-tailed Jaeger)

Synonyms: Letris buffonii
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus), known as the long-tailed skua outside the Americas, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Stercorarius longicaudus

Infraspecies

Stercorarius longicaudus longicaudus
Stercorarius longicaudus pallescens

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.34166
EDGE Score: 2.12126
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  276 grams
Birth Weight [3]  39.2 grams
Female Weight [6]  307 grams
Male Weight [6]  270 grams
Weight Dimorphism [6]  13.7 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra, Alpine tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Endothermic [4]  60 %
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [8]  2
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [5]  25 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  1,700,000
Incubation [7]  23 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [7]  14 years
Migration [9]  Intercontinental
Speed [10]  30.422 MPH (13.6 m/s)
Wing Span [10]  39 inches (1 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (northern collared lemming)[11]
Dicrostonyx torquatus (Arctic lemming)[12]
Lemmus sibiricus (brown lemming)[12]
Microtus miurus (singing vole)[13]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aploparaksis borealis[14]
Diplostomum commutatum[14]
Diplostomum repandum[14]
Diplostomum volvens[14]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Wiley, R. H and D. S. Lee. 1998. Long-tailed Jaeger, Stercorarius longicaudus. in The Birds of North America, No. 365 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc. Philadelphia, Pa.
♦ 7de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 8Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 9Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 10Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 11OLIVIER GILG1, BENOÎT SITTLER, AND ILKKA HANSKI, WILL COLLARED LEMMINGS AND THEIR PREDATORS BE THE FIRST VERTEBRATES TO “FALL OVER THE CLIFF” IN GREENLAND DUE TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES? Gyrfalcons and Ptarmigan in a Changing World – Conference Proceedings 2011, p. 131-132
♦ 12Predator–prey relationships: arctic foxes and lemmings, Anders Angerbjorn, Magnus Tannerfeldt and Sam Erlinge, Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 34-49
♦ 13Microtus miurus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), F. RUSSELL COLE AND DON E. WILSON, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(855):75–89 (2010)
♦ 14Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0