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Stercorarius longicaudus. N-Iceland. A small Icelandic breeding population.
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English Long-tailed Jaeger
Scientific (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Stercorariidae
Family (English) Skuas
Other name(s) Long-tailed Skua, Labbe à longue queue
Breeding Regions NA, EU
Breeding Range Subregions n
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Argentina,Australia,Austria,Belarus,Belize,Bermuda,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Cambodia, Cameroon,Canada,Colombia,Costa Rica,Croatia,Czech Republic,Denmark,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador, Estonia,Faroe Islands,Finland,France,Gabon,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Greenland,Guatemala, Guinea,Haiti,Hungary,Indonesia,Iran,Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan,Kenya, Kiribati,Latvia,Liberia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Madagascar,Mauritania,Mexico,Namibia,Netherlands, Nicaragua,Nigeria,Norway,Palau,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Peru,Poland,Portugal,Romania, Russia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovenia,South Africa,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Thailand, Togo,Turkey,Ukraine,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,
IOC 11.2 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
longicaudus n Scandinavia and n Russia
pallescens e Siberia, arctic North America and Greenland
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Vieillot, 1819
German Falkenraubmöwe
French Labbe à longue queue
Chinese 长尾贼鸥
Japanese シロハラトウゾクカモメ
Russian Длиннохвостый поморник
Spanish Págalo rabero
Portuguese mandrião-de-cauda-comprida / moleiro-rabilongo
Bird Data App text Has longest central tail feathers (longer than length of tail) of any Jaeger.
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)