Long-tailed Jaeger
Stercorarius longicaudus
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Jaegers and Skuas (Stercorariidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The long-tailed jaeger or long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Argentina
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Fiji
- Finland
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Latvia
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mexico
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Poland
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Long-tailed jaeger
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
