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In the Atlantic Ocean the  long-tailed jaeger appeared really twice during the three voyages undertaken in search of tubenoses. Luckily it was fairly close, sometimes even too close, but I managed to take pictures of this bird. The pictures show a young individual. Their weight is about 400 grams and a wingspan about one meter. The third skua goes to my gallery.
Last minute news 06/2018- Iceland
Last minute news 07/2018 – Norway-Spitsbergen
It was the right time and place to take the photos that radically changed my gallery of this species, during my photo workshop in Spitsbergen. An amazing encounter with long-tailed jaegers, the birds accepted a short distance of a few meters from us. As I mentioned in the introductory passage, maybe the round-the-clock light made such dullness, numbness that the birds were not skittish and often yawned. All in all, a lot of photos were taken, and the previous work because of its quality goes to the archive. It's quite funny that our encounter with the jaegers lasted till midnight, and still the light was so intense that the pictures were too much contrastive. We could see the jaegers met in a group of four birds at the top of a small hill but only once they gave a sound. Unfortunately, there was no sound record of this meeting. Well, such a variation in the gallery must be noted in the news.