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Parasitic Jaeger --- from Audubon-"At sea, does much of foraging by chasing other birds and forcing them to drop their catch; also dips down in flight to catch fish at surface. On breeding grounds, also hovers and swoops down to catch prey, and feeds while walking." My first sighting of one of these birds and luckily it flew right towards me, so I was able to see it up close. I didn't know what it was but I knew it was aggressive and wasn't accepted by the resident gulls. I will say the colouring was exquisite though. Banfield Sept 2022
We seen several Jaegers this past trip, But its not very often you see them in water.
We were photographing a pair of Long Tailed Ducks while in the water when this Jaeger flew in and swam around did some bathing then flew up on the shoreline.
Once in awhile, things just fall into your lap.
Known as the Parasitic Jaeger (Jaeger means hunter in German) in America, its scientific name Stercorarius parasiticus reflects the fact that it hunts parasitically on other seabirds. It chases them relentlessly until they disgorge the food they were bringing back to their own chicks. The Skuas then acrobatically catch every single disgorged morsel leaving the mugged victim to go about its business. Now the name Stercorarius means "pertaining to dung" and is given to a variety of dung-related animals such as dung-beetles and yellow dung flies. So why was that name given to Skuas? Well, frightened birds also evacuate their bowels, and early observers thought that the Skuas were trying to make the birds defaecate, so they could eat their droppings. This misobservation led to an inappropriate name, which has stayed with the poor Arctic Skua ever since. There are two colour phases, dark and pale, and dark phase birds are more frequent in the southern part of their range, such as Britain. I photographed this pale phase bird seeing me off the premises in Spitsbergen as it had a chick nearby. There are estimated to be about 1000 pairs breeding in Svalbard.
Friday evening I had the pleasure of photographing a juvenile Pomarine Jaeger for the first time, thanks to Ebird. It was a very fun experience shared with several fellow photographers, gathered to catch a glimpse of this Jaeger, rarely seen in Colorado.
Would have loved to get to a lower angle, but that was not possible at the time without falling IN the water! 😋
Pictured feeding what appears to be a small insect.
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Light wasn't great and the distance was a bit more than I would have liked. But this is the only shot I could manage of this life bird, so I decided to post it. Found on the Seward Peninsula near the mostly abandoned townsite of Council.
The pomarine jaeger, also spelled Pomarine yeager in some translations, pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.
A Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus) near one of the many ponds on the tundra landscape near the Anderson River in the Nunavut, Territory.
They were not as common as the Long-Tailed Jaeger but it was still nice to observe at least a couple during our stays in different field camps.
The long central tail feather was prominent and it helped to distinguish it from the other species with the long central tail feather.
Captured on Kodachrome 64 slide film.
May, June, 1975.
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A flock of Long-tailed Jaegers (Stercorarius longicaudus) resting on the tundra landscape near Karrak Lake, Nunavut, Canada.
June, 1976.
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This is an Arctic Skua, known as Jaeger in America (and the Netherlands- Kleine Jager) which means hunter from its habit of chasing other seabirds. In the breeding season it will feed on small mammals and birds, even insects, but on migration and in winter it feeds exclusively by chasing other seabirds and panicking them into disgorging food. I managed to catch this one bathing in a freshwater pool at the moment it had the maximum movement so it almost looks like it is exploding. I took this photo on St Kilda.
This bird is a cleptoparasite, like the frigate down south. It spots a victim (usually a kittiwake that just caught or stole a fish) and goes chasing it, keeping what every evasive move, until the victim regurgitates the fish for the jaeger.
...arriving on its nest on the dry tundra.
Stercorarius longicaudus - Labbe a longue queue
Nome, Alaska, USA
V1. This is the same scale as the Horizon Brave jaeger I did. A damn difficult scale to work with but this is close to what I wanted. Now I need to figure out how to make a Otachi ;)
Arctic Jaeger, Stercorarous parasiticus
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We rarely see these summer visitors as they generally don't seem to to work in close to shore.
This one was attempting to relieve a Tern of its meal .
Nome Alaska - One of the most rewarding things about Nome this time of the year is experiencing all of the nesting birds on the Actic Tundra
© Harshith JV
Named as Parasitic for its behavior of stealing food from other bird. Pirate could've been better term.
Common names: Parasitic Jaeger, Arctic Skua
Scientific name: Stercorarius parasiticus
Place: Mangalore, Karnataka
Date: October 14, 2018
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"Careful not to clip that tail" I tell my participants when we photograph this species. That jaeger has a long tail. This one was photographed last spring in the Brooks Range Mountains of Alaska
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A Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) rests on the tundra in Nome, Alaska. These swift-flying seabirds spend the majority of their lives far out at sea, only coming inland to breed on the tundra. South of the Arctic, these birds seldom come within sight of land. It was so special to see them at close range and in good numbers in Nome!
(This bird was not on a nest when I photographed it.)
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