Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds

http://tgreybirds.com/Pages/LongtailedJaegerp.html

Also named a Long-tailed Jager

Scientific:

Stercorarius longicaudus

Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Stercorariidae
Genus:
Stercorarius

Danish : Lille Kjove

Greenlandic : Papikkaaq

Length : 48 – 53 cm

Wingspan: 105 – 117 cm

Weight: 230 – 444 g

Stein Ø. Nilsen, XC378340. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/378340.

References :

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018). Stercorarius longicaudus. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=1D4464402EC9FD21

Wiley, R. H. and D. S. Lee. 1998. Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.365

Meltofte, H. and Høye, T.T. 2007. Reproductive response to fluctuating lemming density and climate of the long-tailed skua Stercorarius longicaudus at Zackenberg, Northeast Greenland, 1996-2006. Dansk Ornitologisk Forenings Tidsskrift, 101: 109-119.

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