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Long tailed jaeger I’m going to tell about the long tailed jaegers. I’m going to tell you about its habitat, behavior, description, migration, nesting, diet, and the scientific name. They are able to fly over water for a long period of time. There tail can also get up to 22 centimeters long. They also eat berries and they even raise the jaegers and feed them human food. They are the smallest of all the jaegers. [|the extreme call] They are the smallest of all the jaegers. They have narrow wings with a slender body. The adults central tail feathers extend 5 - 10” beyond the rest of the tail in the breeding season. The tail becomes broken or missing in the August or November. It has grayish upper parts contrasting with darker secondary, a whitish head and upper parts, a blackish brown cap and a yellow cast to the side of its neck if it’s an adult. The jaegers, under wing lack a white patch. They hardly get dark phases if there adults. In November to March they have a capped flicked with white and grey if there non breeding adults and lack of tail feathers. The juvenile or the immature have both light and dark phases but mostly white. Other parts of the world jaegers are called skuas. They migrate over ocean and small numbers may assemble around fishing vessels during the non breeding season. They hunt krestles by hovering and swooping down on them. They take prey from other sea birds but the parasitic and pomarine jaegers do it more than the long tailed jaegers. Long tailed jaegers are less aggressive but more agile then the other jaegers. They defend large territories and advertise on breeding grounds by doing aerials displays. They are silent away from breeding grounds. They also eat berries and they even raise the jaegers and feed them human food. They are found on the coastal and farther inland on partially vegetated dry arctic tundra if they are breeding birds. They are at least ten miles from land and are highly pelagic at other times of the year. They are mostly near commercial fishing vessels and often spend time on offshore banks in areas with schools of fish. Their diet at sea includes fish, crustaceans, and polychaete worm. They eat mostly lemmings and moles during the breeding season. Both of the sexes build nest, a shallow depression often on a slightly raised area. While incubating they hold an egg between one foot and its corresponding brood patch so they are limited two eggs. Males incubate less than female. After the chicks hatch they stay in the nest up to one to two days. While one of the bird hunts one of them stay by the chicks. The female feeds the chicks while the male hunt for food. After about one to three weeks the young leaves their parents which occurs at twenty two to twenty seven days. During July to October the birds are found in Washington coast during fall. In spring migration they are rare. August and September is when the peak migration is. Their breeding areas are at arctic Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, winter at sea south of the equator. They arrive on their breeding grounds on the last week of May or the first week of June. In the arctic the long tailed jaegers is the most abundant jaegers. Although local breeding populations fluctuate with the food supply, over all members appear stable. I thought that them doing aerials is awesome because they try to show off and keep their territory. I also liked how they would swoop down to get krestles by hovering. I liked how they are more agile and less aggressive than other birds. I enjoyed writing this because I got to learn about the bird.