First observation of a four-egg clutch of long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus).

5 pages International audience 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 nes...

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Published in:The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
Main Authors: Hansen, Jannik, Ek, Malin, Roslin, Tomas, Moreau, Jérôme, Teixeira, Maria, Gilg, Olivier, Schmidt, Niels Martin
Other Authors: Department of Bioscience Roskilde, Aarhus University Aarhus, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø (UiT), Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Biogéosciences UMR 6282 Dijon (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2015
Subjects:
Zackenberg
Stercorarius longicaudus
lemmings
Greenland
clutch size
[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology
Long-tailed Jaeger
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01133941
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Summary:5 pages International audience 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.

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