MOURC Proceedings Archive - Jaegers Accepted
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Proceedings
Species: Jaegers
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
[Stercorarius jaeger]

Long-tailed Jaeger (A) (Stercorarius longicaudus)Start Date 0000-00-00
RefFirstLastLocationCounty23CommentStatus
1MOU1898-07-01MarshallAccepted
avian
information
1934-11-161934-11-17Cook11/16-17 Cook (second state record) (first county record)
2MOU1942-10-04Heron LakeJacksonThe Flicker 31:32Accepted
3MOU1961-09-16Minnesota PointSt. LouisThe Flicker 33:126Accepted
4MOU1962-04-121962-04-21WadenaAccepted
5MOU1962-04-21Crow Wing River, 4 miles east of NimrodWadenaThe Flicker 34:54Accepted
6MOU1972-08-20Rush LakeOtter TailThe Loon 45:13Accepted
7MOU1980-10-141980-10-16Park PointSt. LouisThe Loon 52:144Accepted
854:421981-08-24DuluthSt. Louis(vote 7-0, Loon in press) Accepted
974:362001-09-052001-09-07BayportWashington(record #2001-52, vote 7–0). Also an adult with a fully grown tail, and seen by many observers. Accepted
1080:52007-08-212007-09-02near southwest boundary of Agassiz National Wildlife RefugeMarshall(record #2007-055, vote 7–0). This confiding adult established a predictable pattern of foraging for grasshoppers and other insects on a gravel road. Videotaped and photographed by many observers. Ninth state record and the first for Agassiz N.W.R. Accepted
1185:992013-06-14Roseau Lake Wildlife Management AreaRoseau(record #2013-031, vote 7–0). Adult, photographed. First county record. First summer record since the first state record in 1898 in Marshall County when a specimen was taken at Warren (Roberts, Thomas S. 1919. A Review of the Ornithology of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Publications Number 11. 101 pp.). Accepted
1286:32013-09-192013-09-22Minnesota side of Superior Entry, DuluthSt. Louis(record #2013-053, vote 7–0). Third-cycle Long-tailed Jaeger, photographed. Twelfth state record. Observed by at least two experienced observers and documented by many high-quality photographs including one with a direct comparison to a Parasitic Jaeger. Accepted
1393:472020-09-082020-09-13Black Rush Lake W.P.A.Lyon(record #2020055, vote 7–0). Adult, photographed. First county and twelfth state record. Accepted
 
 Eleven records: one spring, two summer, and eight fall. Recorded in one (2013) of the last ten years. There are additional records of unidentified Stercorarius sp.

Notes:

The information in the above table comes from several different sources. The count in column 1 indicates which of the sources is considered the primary source.
'Accepted' MOURC entries from The MOURC Proceedings
'Not Accepted' or 'Rejected' MOURC entry from The MOURC Proceedings
Accepted MOU records assembled by David Cahlander
Sighting records for ()
Avian information from the occurrence maps, in dark red, assembled by Robert Janssen. Seasonal report for the species/season published in The Loon or The Flicker has been added.
Information from The Loon index assembled by Anthony Hertzel and David Cahlander