Back

Long-tailed Jaeger

Stercorarius longicaudus

Classification

Class
Aves

The long-tailed jaeger or long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. Etymology The word "jaeger" is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning "hunter". The English word "skua" comes from the Faroese name skúgvurcode: fao promoted to code: fo [ˈskɪkvʊər] for the great skua, with the island of Skúvoy known for its colony of that bird.

Distribution

no rights reserved, uploaded by Kent P. McFarland · CC0
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1,913Spain · 1,471United Kingdom · 1,022Peru · 235France · 140Germany · 106Belgium · 52Switzerland · 37Brazil · 12Italy · 9