#0879 · 🐦 birds
Long-tailed Jaeger
🇳🇱 Kleinste Jager ·Stercorarius longicaudus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Guy L. Monty · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © mwbirdco · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Bill Bouton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Matthew Thompson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Kent P. McFarland · CC0
- 10. © Justine · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The long-tailed skua , known as the long-tailed jaeger ( Stercorarius longicaudus ) in the Americas, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,744 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 307 g.
- Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1819 (207 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Nederlands
- Kleinste Jager
- scientific name
- Stercorarius longicaudus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Stercorariidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 563
- sightings worldwide
- 2,744
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,672
- weight
- 307.2 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1819 by Louis Pierre Vieillot
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Stercorariidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4481, Wikidata Q216921, GBIF 2481613, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.