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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1 March 2015
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
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clutch size
Greenland
lemmings
Stercorarius longicaudus
Zackenberg