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Research article2015Peer reviewed

First Observation of a Four-egg Clutch of Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)

Hansen, Jannik; Ek, Malin; Roslin, Tomas; Moreau, Jerome; Teixeira, Maria; Gilg, Olivier; Schmidt, Niels Martin

Abstract

Long-tailed Jaegers (Stercorarius longicaudus) normally lay one or two eggs (rarely three), with a maximum of two eggs set by the existence of only two brood patches. Here, however, we present the first documentation of a clutch of four eggs in a Long-tailed Jaeger nest found at Zackenberg in northeastern Greenland.

Keywords

clutch size; Greenland; lemmings; Stercorarius longicaudus; Zackenberg

Published in

Wilson Journal of Ornithology
2015, Volume: 127, number: 1, pages: 149-153
Publisher: WILSON ORNITHOLOGICAL SOC

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Ecology

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1676/14-072.1

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/85057