page_title: Long-tailed jaeger
section_title: Breeding
hierarchical_section_title: Long-tailed jaeger / Breeding
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: obrázek chaluhy malé z cs::en:Image:Longtailedskua89.jpg zdroj: NAUMANN&#160;: Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas,
context_page_description: The long-tailed skua, known as the long-tailed jaeger in the Americas, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
context_section_description: This species breeds in the high Arctic of Eurasia and North America, with major populations in Russia, Alaska and Canada and smaller populations around the rest of the Arctic. It is a migrant, wintering in the south Atlantic and Pacific. Passage juvenile birds sometimes hunt small prey in ploughed fields or golf-courses, and are typically quite fearless of humans.
  They nest on dry tundra or higher fells laying two spotted olive-brown eggs. On the breeding grounds they can be heard making yelping and rattling sounds. Outside of the breeding season they spend most of their time over open ocean and have a harsh kreeah cry. This bird feeds on fish (mainly caught from other seabirds), smaller birds, food scraps, small mammals, fruit and carrion. On migration, long-tailed jaegers are more likely to catch their own food, and less likely to steal from gulls and terns than larger species.
caption: Long-tailed jaeger illustration by Johann Friedrich Naumann
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