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Long-tailed jaeger videos, photos and facts - Stercorarius ...
The long-tailed jaeger hunts rodents by hovering some distance above the ground, before pouncing on or pursuing the prey on the ground and pecking it to death (2) (3) (5) . It cannot use its feet to grasp prey, instead usually shaking the rodent in the beak to break it apart (3) (5) . Adult lemmings may be too large to be eaten whole, but a breeding pair will often cooperate to tear apart prey...
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Identification of Immature Long-tailed Jaeger - Idaho Birds
Black's Creek Reservoir, Ada County
25-27 August 2004
by Harry Krueger
[The following is taken from a post I made on IBLE on 8/31/2004 and a private e-mail I sent to Cliff Weisse of 8/30/2004, as well as a personal communication received from Phil Pickering of Oregon. The specimen of the Blacks Creek Reservoir bird resides in the Archive and Collection area of the World Center for...
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