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

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

doi:10.1676/14-072.1

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Jannik Hansen,^1,* Malin Ek,² Tomas Roslin,³ Jérôme Moreau,^4,5 Maria Teixeira,⁴ Olivier Gilg,^4,5 Niels Martin Schmidt^1,6

¹1 Ecosystem Ecology Group, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborvej 399, DK-4000
²2 Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway
³3 Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, P. O.
⁴5 UMR, CNRS 6282, Equipe Ecologie-Evolutive, Université de Bourgogne, Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France
⁵6 Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique, F-21440 Francheville, France
⁶4 Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C

^*Corresponding author; jaha@bios.au.dk

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.

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Jannik Hansen, Malin Ek, Tomas Roslin, Jérôme Moreau, Maria Teixeira, Olivier Gilg, and Niels Martin Schmidt "First Observation of a Four-egg Clutch of Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)," The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 127(1), 149-153, (1 March 2015). https://doi.org/10.1676/14-072.1

Received: 13 May 2014; Accepted: 1 October 2014; Published: 1 March 2015

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