๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Long-tailed Jaeger live?

Stercorarius longicaudus has 154,487 records in 131 countries and territories, from 1834 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Long-tailed Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger โ€” Svyatoslav Knyazev / CC BY 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesStercorariidaeStercorarius

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 67,919
Sweden 27,324
Norway 13,316
Canada 12,173
Netherlands 3,589
United Kingdom 3,303
Finland 2,629
Australia 2,419
Spain 2,384
Denmark 2,218
Russia 1,900
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1,432
Taiwan 1,222
Belgium 902
France 862
Greenland 718
Portugal 625
Argentina 574
Chile 503
ZZ 451
Germany 434
Ireland 388
Peru 372
Japan 291
Israel 273
Indonesia 231
Poland 228
India 206
Senegal 206
Sri Lanka 200
Cabo Verde 194
Mexico 184
Faroe Islands 183
South Africa 174
Italy 170
Costa Rica 162
New Zealand 162
Iceland 143
Greece 127
Hong Kong 124

Showing the top 40 of 131 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.