The Long-tailed Jaeger is the most slender and graceful jaeger, with enormously elongated central tail feathers in breeding adults — sometimes exceeding the body length. It is less piratical than the other jaegers and more dependent on catching its own food. Breeding adults subsist primarily on lemmings; if lemming populations crash, breeding is abandoned entirely for that year.
Habitat
Arctic tundra when breeding; open ocean in migration; rarely from shore
Diet
Lemmings on breeding grounds; fish and invertebrates at sea
How common
Uncommon
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