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Long-tailed Jaeger
Stercorarius longicaudus
species of Stercorariidae

juv.
number longest
primary 10 per wing 229.0 - 247.0mm n=2
P9 (50%) P10 (50%)
secondary 22 per wing 121.0 - 131.5mm n=2
S15 (50%) S16=S17 (50%)
retrix 12
145.0 - 149.0mm n=2
R1 (100%)
wing length1 hand-wing-index1,2 (HWI) primaries-index wing length/longest primary ratio hand-wing-index/primaries-index ratio
289 - 315mm n=11 54 - 64% n=8 53 - 53% n=2 ⌀133% no data available
detailed information

The wing length is measured on the flattened and straightened wing ("maximum chord") from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary feather, the so-called "Kleinschmidt-method".

combined data from:
Avonet1: 289 - 315mm n=10
Featherbase: 305 - 305mm n=1

The hand-wing-index, introduced by Kipp 1959, is calculated as the ratio of the hand length (difference between the length of the longest primary and the first secondary) to the wing length.

combined data from:
Avonet1: 54 - 64% n=8,
The primaries-index is calculated as the ratio of the longest primary feather length to the first (outermost) secondary. It is the equivalent of the hand-wing index for feather measurements. The wing length/longest primary ratio is calculated as the ratio of the wing length to the length of the longest primary feather. The hand-wing-index/primaries-index ratio is calculated as the ratio of the hand-wing index to the primaries-index.
1 Tobias, J. A., et al. (2022). AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds.
2 Kipp, Friedrich A.: "Der Handflügel-Index als flugbiologisches Maß", erschienen in "Vogelwarte - Zeitschrift für Vogelkunde", 1959, Band 20, Heft 1



1st cy

country allocations

extant

Angola (vagrant) · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba (vagrant) · Australia · Austria · Bahamas (vagrant) · Barbados · Belarus (vagrant) · Belgium · Belize (vagrant) · Bermuda (vagrant) · Bosnia and Herzegovina (vagrant) · Botswana (vagrant) · Brazil · Bulgaria (vagrant) · Cabo Verde (vagrant) · Canada · Cayman Islands (vagrant) · Chile · Colombia · Costa Rica (vagrant) · Croatia (vagrant) · Cuba · Czechia · Denmark · Dominica · Dominican Republic (vagrant) · Ecuador · Egypt · Falkland Islands (Malvinas) · Faroe Islands · Fiji (vagrant) · Finland · France · Germany (vagrant) · Greece (vagrant) · Greenland · Guadeloupe (vagrant) · Guatemala · Haiti (vagrant) · Hong Kong (vagrant) · Hungary · Iceland · Indonesia · Iran, Islamic Republic of (vagrant) · Ireland (vagrant) · Israel · Italy · Jamaica (vagrant) · Japan · Jordan (vagrant) · Kenya (vagrant) · Kuwait (vagrant) · Latvia · Liberia (vagrant) · Malaysia · Malta (vagrant) · Martinique · Mauritania (vagrant) · Mexico · Montenegro (vagrant) · Montserrat · Morocco (vagrant) · Namibia (vagrant) · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand (vagrant) · Nigeria (vagrant) · Northern Mariana Islands · Norway · Oman (vagrant) · Palau · Panama (vagrant) · Peru · Poland · Portugal (vagrant) · Qatar (vagrant) · Romania · Russian Federation · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (vagrant) · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Senegal (vagrant) · Serbia (vagrant) · Slovakia (vagrant) · Slovenia (vagrant) · Solomon Islands · South Africa (vagrant) · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands · Spain (vagrant) · Svalbard and Jan Mayen · Sweden · Switzerland · Thailand · Togo (vagrant) · Türkiye (vagrant) · United Arab Emirates (vagrant) · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · United States of America · Uruguay (vagrant) · Vanuatu ·
source: IUCN 2025. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2025-1 <www.iucnredlist.org>
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Waders, gulls and auks

conservation status

  • CITES
    not listed
  • Regulation (EG) Nr. 865/2006
    not listed
  • German Federal Nature Conservation Act §44
    protected