On Tue, 23 Aug 1994, Dennis Paulson wrote:
>
> I've also watched long-tailed jaegers in numbers walking slowly over the
> arctic tundra, picking insects and spiders from among the plants just like
> a passerine and certainly not anything you'd expect a falcon to do.

In a similar vein, I recall 3 long-taileds sitting on a hummock (they're
called pingos in the Arctic), fly-catching chironomid flies. I hadn't
ever considered jaegars as flycatchers until then. But they would sit
there on the pingo, then fly out and catch one, and then come back to
perch. All 3 on the same pingo.

Mike Smith
University of Washington
whimbrel at u.washington.edu